Well with time on my idle hands latley
i decided to treat one of my old favourite reels to a bit of a badly needed facelift i was in a reel servicing mode, had done a few and next up was this fairly rare hard to come accross 8500 i had done a bad job on it about 8 years or so ago.
in an original state they are blue i changed mine to black the last time, the side plates are made of brass so i decided i was going to try do a half decent job of polishing them a total strip down of the reel was needed for this,plates off so into the shed i went and after a couple of long polishing sessions i had them looking ok next stage to prevent the brass tarnishing was 3 coats of a two pack laquer applied by a mate of mine that owed me a favour. plates just back reel reasembled and now i have myself a fresh favourite reel back in action
This reel was made in 1974 and it just oozes quality, brass plates with stainless/ chromed innards. stainless pinion and brass main gear why dont they make them like they used to, i have some modern pieces of shite that abu put their names too for some reason and they havent got a patch on any of the older reels
The reason i have put this up is because i think most on here might never have heard of an 8500 never mind see one,but now you have
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JOHN1 on Sat Apr 20, 2013 10:48 pm, edited 1 time in total.