My take on the fishing reel FF

[RSFilms]

This thing took an initial breakdown of a cheap fishing reel and a 6+ month later wrapping up of the details. It was worth the wail for me. LOL.. With age comes a certain amount of patience.

Ingredients cheap micro fishing reel, belts and gears from a scraped mail folding machine, square aluminum tubing, some sheet metal and experience working as a jeweler for 25 years doing fabrication(for the case for the small gears and belt). Also a 4"square piece of white plexiglass from a "Signs Now" shop, various other odds and ends and a lot of elbow grease.

It works great and saved myself a chunk of change! May not be industry standard gear ratios and such but does the job!

 

[Rodney V. Smith]

nice.. very very nice... much kudos to you dude. i didnt even know they made micro fishing reels

 

[twocik23]

Looks very nice, some of the pics. are a little dark though.

 

[twocik23]

"i didnt even know they made micro fishing reels"


Yes, they even make electric reels as well. With the first fisher man FF that put together I used a cheap 10.00 reel from walmart. I started to play with the electric reel, but nothing yet. I then started to look into RC race car motors and remotes for an electrical smoother turn, this is the way to go. The only thing is you'll need to fabricate a 90 angle box to hold the shafts and gears in place. Nice job

 

[DavidD]

Great job. It looks like something you could purchase! Any 'lighter' pics?

 

[DavidD]

Hey what is the part number or the model for the Micro Fishing reel - I think I am going to have to get one...walmart right?

 

[Rodney V. Smith]

yeah, what IS the number? i'm due for a walmart trip anyway and a smaller reel would mean less chiselign and hacking away on my end. In the closeup shots of my FF the poor thing is just cannibalized by chisels

 

[RSFilms]

Thanks for comments, I'll try to take more pics with it off the rods and more light.

The reel was purchased at Walmart. I looked at the one I still have and it's a "Zebco 00 micro" but the copyright is from 1996. I've had them a while. You should be able to find something similar though.

 

[DavidD]

Puck if you get to Walmart before me, let me know the availability of those.

 

[Rodney V. Smith]

dont think i'm getting there tonight. I'm cleaning up some "red-tip" (of the gun) frames tonight and i just reached frame #50.

only 270 more to go...

let me know if they have em... think imstuck here all night

 

[DavidD]

I love the look of the white plexiglass, RSFilm, I am going to have to find some of that...it looks very pro.

 

[Rodney V. Smith]

how many signs can we break tonight? hmm.. kidding! really! (i think)

 

[DavidD]

There has to be another source for the plexiglass signs. I am going to try the $ dollar store as well, you never know...

 

[Rodney V. Smith]

what about sign shops? I used to make signs a long long time ago and we'd work with these huge sheets of white plexiglass and sometimes a material called lexan. There were always scraps left over that nobody could use... think I'll swing by the local sign shop here (the chain after) and see what i can dig up. maybe i won't have to go dumpster diving in their trash cans if they're nice enough to me....

 

[RSFilms]

The white plexiglass I got from "Signs Now" (sign making franchise). The guy was going to charge $5.00 for a 4"x4" piece but when he brought it to the counter he said he cut it from a piece of scrap and gave it to me!

 

[Rodney V. Smith]

i hope the dude at the store here is as nice and not a complete bastard. you come across them on occasion.. maybe i'll get my girlfriend to go and ask him... a little cleavage for the cause never hurt anyone

 

[DavidD]

Ok, update.
At the Cdn Walmart, they carry Zebco, but not the Micro '00' series - saw a 202 and a 303, but nothing else. Sucks. Puck, you will have to check the USA and see if they do.
I was thinking about CD cases for the plexiglass, but I think it isn't smooth. I think I will go and check out sign store tomorrow and see what they hold in the back - maybe scraps like RSfilm got.

 

[Rodney V. Smith]

i tried the cd cases, but while smooth enough, they're way too flimsy.
I'll check here for the micro and let you know what the situation is.

 

[DavidD]

Ok, thanks. I picked up a pillbox that is circular- going to try that considering it is already cut to size and round. LEt me know about Walmart when you can.

Excellent, the round pillbox works with a dry-erase pen - comes right off. That takes care of that. If CLD or Puck are interested, I will grab a few from the dollar store and send them in the mail. I will take some pic of the ff tomorrow when I finish tapping holes in the coupling.