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Posts: 3907 | Snow, please send me you home addy for baits. My main reels are all older ABUs. Half of them are the AB (anti-backlash), Here's the trip... older ABUs are like a 1970 basic Chevelle. Fine quality and cheap off the line but very easy to upgrade all the way to a drag strip car. Back in the day ABUs were often used worldwide, especially in Japan, in long distance casting competitions. They are easy to work on, and upgrade parts are widely available: gears, bearings, handles, drag washers, everything inside those reels can be improved with higher quality parts. The ABs, the anti-backlash guys, were sold for only a couple years. Super high-quality Swiss work but everybody hated them. You could find barely used $120 reels (1990 or so?) for $15 bucks at a flea market. It was EASY to tear them down, replace the thumb bar feature with standard parts, and end up with a wonderful quality reel. But as long as you have it apart, upgrade the bearings/bushing with ceramic, upgrade or even change the gears ratio, and upgrade the drag washer system with Smoothies. Same thing with any other C3 or C4, turn that basic model Chevy into a street racer. As long as I've rambled this far, the parts that wear out first are #1 the pawl, you'll know it's failing when line stacks on one side or the other. #1.5 the worm gear suffers when the worn-down pawl slops its way one way and then the other. #2 the handle pads, originals pop off setting the hook on a boatside strike. Replace the entire handle. #3 the concave metal washers in the drag system, over lubricating means tightening down the drag enough to flatten them. Drag washers don't want any lubrication at all. Flatten those two washers and your drag is forever ****ed. If you are shopping for an old ABU to trick out, look for reels where the handle is still straight. The handles on heavily used reels are always bent, concave instead of straight like out of the box. Tear down one of those heavily used reels and you'll see the wear on the gears; they will need to be replaced. All ABU schematics are available for free download. Exploded diagrams of the reel. Attachments ----------------  5600AB.jpg (15KB - 4 downloads) | ||
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