Old Penn reels

ihave two of the 9's and love em. would really like to give them the "Tani touch".
 Randall

ihave two of the 9's and love em.

Is that the same as the "Penn Peerless No 9" I have?

Man, I'm getting excited to bring these things back to life.  Its gonna be on next season!

what Alan is reffering to is that 25 pound line is to small in diameter and will most likely get caught/snared into the side plates and wreck havoc on you.  Some of his post call for using nothing less than 30 lb mono as it is less prone to get caught in the side plates.  I have narrowed 500 that is Tani/Newell combo and it is the bomb.  A little heavy but as some one posted you can always use it to beat the fish to submission!

ihave two of the 9's and love em.

Is that the same as the "Penn Peerless No 9" I have?

Man, I'm getting excited to bring these things back to life.  Its gonna be on next season!

Yes they are. x-father inlaw gifted. I don't know what year but interestng how all the old stuff was built to last compared to the throw away crap of today.
 Randall

interestng how all the old stuff was built to last compared to the throw away crap of today.
 Randall

I work in a greenhouse and we have miles of 1.25 pipe.  We have stuff we bought used in the seventies, so probably 60 years old.  They rarely fail.  But the new lines we added blow a leak in about 2 years on average. 

I just picked up a penn jigmaster 501 (narrow) on ebay. I plan on doing a couple of old school set ups...even gonna use straight mono...Already have the penn 9M on a ugly stick

  I use 30# mono on my Penn 85's and have no problems with it getting caught in the sideplates.  I always use 20 or 25# fluoro as part of my terminal gear and if I get hung up and have to break off  I don't lose a lot of line, usually breaks at the fluoro knot.

    I use Suffix mono which I think is a bit thicker than most 30# mono's.