Maintenance Monday Tips
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General Instructions
After all saltwater usage, reels should be rinsed with lukewarm water and allowed to dry.
Mooching and Fly Reels
Cleaning Instructions
- Disassemble your reel and remove clutch (if applicable)
- Clean the inside of your reel with the soft cloth / swabs (save one to spread oil on the clutch cork)
- Remove old oil, grease and accumulated grit
Grease these areas
- Base of spindle where it meets the frame
- Areas where parts rub against each other (where springs meet clickers)
- Bearings – back of clutch, front of spool, back of spool
- Teeth of the clutch or gear
Oil these areas
- Pivot points (pawls, clickers, springs)
- Cork on the clutch surface.
Centerpin Float Reels
Cleaning Instructions
- Disassemble your reel
- Clean the inside of your reel and remove old oil, grease and accumulated grit with the soft cloth/swabs.
Grease these areas
- Between the clicker and spring
- Teeth of the gear
- Between the cam and cam arm (Searun)
Oil these areas
- Clicker pivot screw and other pivot screws
- Spindle base
- Bearings (front and back of spool)
- O-ring on the back of the spindle screw
- Underneath the clicker button (IS)
- Cam detent and surrounding area (Searun)