alot of us grew up on the squidder it is a good reel and has a nice wide Bell to thumb the spool.
tear it down and clean it and coat all parts with a light film of super lube and lightly rub the drag washers with it, It will smooth the drag out a bit.
You can pop the bearing in the gear side of the reel out. and cleen it and lube it. I would use a heavy oil. Its a good match to the reel due to no breaks in it.
I pop the bearing out with a old bail ( it has a bend in it to get under bearing)
then go to the other bearing You can Buy one/its the knob on the left side of reel/ and cleen it or go to red flop and Buy one.
put the reel together and then back the knob off to give a little bit of knock in the spool.
Make sure You tighten all the screws holding the reel frame together. I have killed the same reel a bunch of time from screws loose from fish.
Hope this helps. this is an underated reel that will smoke alot of reels if You can get it down.
Happy backlashing
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