Wanted: thoughts about some old reels

I'm spending my Easter weekend with my wife Amy's family in Fresno.  Amy's 82 yr old grandfather has decided he no longer has the balance to keep fishing and has given me some of his old reels.   Most of them seem to be a bit neglected but with a little love they are all probably in working condition.


Penn Long Beach 65
Abu Garcia Ambassadaur ProMax 360
Quantum 621 "Rippin' Reel"
Diawa Procaster Tournament PTA33
Shimano Bantam Mag Plus 250sg
Shimano Bantam 10xSG
Shakespeare Wonder-Troll 20 eh

From what I can figure out, most of these are late 80's to early 80's reels and the Penn could be older or newer, and I haven't a clue when the "wonder-troll" was made.

My questions....

1.)  I can't find out anything about the "Wonder-Troll".  It's bigger than the Penn Longbeach and looks to be an early lever-drag conventional reel.  I can't tell if it's working properly because it always sounds like theres a clicker ingaged somewhere as I let line out or reel in.

2.) What's the differnce between a Penn Longbeach and a Penn Jigmaster.  On ebay it seems the jigmasters sell for more.

3.)  Has anyone have any opinions on any of the above reels.  I'm probably going to clean them up, regrease/oil them and figure out which ones are worth adding to my quiver of rods.



Thanks,
Brian


I don't have an easy way to take/post pictures of the reels right now, but I'll post a pic of the "wonder-troll" when I get back home.

brian, the longbeach has a lower gear ratio, 3:1 or less usually.

if you google them, you will see that is the main difference.

or at least I had the same question and that was the answer I found for myself.

basically all those penn reels, the squidder, long beach, the 'modern' sea boy, they have
3:1 gear ratio or less and varying degrees of line capacity and drag washer size.

I wonder when the ht-100 drags came about as that seems to
be a real advantage of a lot of penn reels, ht-100 is carbon fiber. assuming penn made
that and patented it, but now everybody else can do it, maybe they had it as much as
20 years ago which puts you in the mid-eighties.

the jigmaster has a "high" 4:1 retrieve rate for swimming iron jigs at the speed they
need to be retrieved to get hits.  coupled with the large spool, it pulls line in at a rate
that works. A smaller spooled reel would need higher ratio to pull the jig back at the same speed.

Ive got a penn long beach on  an uglystick tiger with real heavy braid and a 6 foot + sturgie towed me for an hour on it, no problem at all and lots of fun. I love that reel! I did just get a new mooching baitcaster and its a bit smoother but I still love those old penns... ive got a 1932 gibson guitar too... gibsons and penns = old school!At the very least  its cool you have those reels to keep them doing what there made for and not gathering dust! Ben