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After aquiring a few new reels and rods im after some ideas of how to maintain them.

Basicaly after a day out on the water how do u wash down your gear? straight water? soap ? etc

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rods, take them into the shower, works for me.

reels, get an electric tooth brush and do the drag right up and scrub all the fishy particles off, then get some warm soapy water and just wipe it down then rinse the reels off in luke warm water not under any pressure at all otherwise the salt and leftover dirt will get washed into the small parts and clog them up. note; when washing the reels make sure that the drag is done right up. also never never hose the reels after a fishing trip.
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same deal as levcat.

but finish it all off with a light coating of tackleguard (or if i've run out a bit of crc / wd40 etc)

 

oh and dont forget to release that drag once all is done

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Yep, for the reels. Drags done up full. A light rinse with the hose to get the salt off. A scrub with some warm soapy water to get the more resistant salt and fish bait and fish scales etc off. A good shake and a dry with a towel (DO NOT try this with the baby!). Finally a spray with the Inox.

For the rods. A rinse with the hose. Spray with Simple Green or similar. Scrub with a brush. Dry. Light coating of Inox all over.
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yip, tackel guard like JK said, great stuff that.
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i spray my rods and reels with salt away then when the gear is dry i spray with tackel guard.i use a small 1 litre hand held garden sprayer to spray the salt away product over the gear.

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yep warm soapy water is a must if you want to get rid of salt and all that bait in your eva grips and around the guides plus off your reel..

the reason for getting rid of the salt is......

when you put the gear in storage the condensation in the air on a rainy day will be absorbed by the salt and it will swell up and cause problems on most surfaces hence warm water will desolve the salt and help remove it..... 

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Car washing brush on the end of the hose .. can add soap if you wish.

Works great and is practical.

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Do up the drags, go light with the Inox etc, it really does get in otherwise and can cause problems. Wipe down and then loosen drag. F.T.
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Yeah car wash brush for me, do the rods/reels and all. Rinse off soap with a light spray then crc or whatever over the lot.

I do the drag thing if I remember. Most important of all take them apart after every drowning otherwise annually- if you dont know what to do get it done professionally although you have to weigh up the cost of paying someone vs the price of a new reel.

A couple of my Penns are around  15 yrs old mebbe more and still serviceable.

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I don't CRC my reels. It gets into the drags and stuffs them .. even Tackle Guard (and inox) does. If I need to oil them I use tackleguard sprayed onto a rag and wiped on - never sprayed directly onto the reel.

I pull them apart from time to time (every couple of years) and use the lube suplied with the reel in the bearings and gears. Wipe any really nasty salt deposits away and then put them back together.

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Quote: Originally posted by Bender on 07 March 2006

I pull them apart from time to time (every couple of years) and use the lube suplied with the reel in the bearings and gears. Wipe any really nasty salt deposits away and then put them back together .





Really? Thats not what I heard.

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I tackleguard all the guides on my new rods before I use them.  Make sure that the first few times you get them wet that they are cleaned well and tackleguarded.  It seems to build up a film to make them less suseptible to corrosion.  This is especially on cheaper rods.

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Yeah, don't spray the Inox or whatever you use straight on the reel. Although I have done that in the past, it didn't seem to have a negative effect on the insides. I recently serviced both my TLDs at home and they were fine on the inside. The TLD15 did wreak of fish when I opened it up though.

Used Salt Away on my rods and reels for the first time the other weekend while I was washing the boat. Worked a treat and all was left sparkling. Didn't need to scrub them at all. Might have to get a spray bottle of Salt Away just for the fishing tackle.
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Quote: Originally posted by ohsif on 07 March 2006
Quote: Originally posted by Bender on 07 March 2006

I pull them apart from time to time (every couple of years) and use the lube suplied with the reel in the bearings and gears. Wipe any really nasty salt deposits away and then put them back together .





Really? Thats not what I heard.


Well there was the time under the 20 watt light bulb, at 11pm, after a night on the burley and rum & cokes. FT has photos of that. Not flattering.

And then there was the time after the fish smoking session, (8 hours on the Lion Red) that resulted in everything working perfectly until I hooked a rat king on 6kg and an ear piercing squeal emanated from the reel. Hmm rethink the reconstruction phase.

Why is I get motivated to pull reels apart late at night after I've been on the turps?

My mate Andy from Penn calls them the "ice cream box specials" - the ones they get back in plastic ice cream bins in a million pieces.

I got smart Ohsif - I downloaded the exploded diagrams off the Penn website. Then, after those couple of high profile failures, I actually READ the diagrams. Believe it or not, it made a difference.

 

Nobody has ever come up with a great idea after a second bottle of water.


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cheers guys these are all great ideas
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Spray with saltaway when washing the boat down.
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if you want to get carried away you can open your new or old reel if it hasnt been done before and paint the inside of your reel with a grease called Morays its is water proof, heat resistent and eatable not that you would want make a meal of the stuff,

just a light covering painted on the inside will stop any corrosion, it last for a couple of years or more and makes for easy servicing when needed.....

i have 4 225lds which are now 6years old and they are still very smooth and corrosion free internally and each would have landed some 100/200 fish they havent let me down yet and dont think they ever will.....

the rods i use are the same age and have replaced only the tips and they still look pretty good.....

warm soapy water is a must and WD40, Tackle Gaurd or what every you fancy to bring them back up to looking new and keeping the handles free is the go......

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Quote: Originally posted by Bender on 07 March 2006

My mate Andy from Penn calls them the "ice cream box specials" - the ones they get back in plastic ice cream bins in a million pieces.

 


isnt that how all penns end up?
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No that Avets you're thinking of. Fresh water bearings.
Nobody has ever come up with a great idea after a second bottle of water.


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