Repairing Rear-Drag SpinningReels....just can't bring myself to tossin them!

Yeah!  i use&love them. I've got a couple that need some luvin. I've contacted AlanT. for consultation and have been given the "Your SOL" on the rear drag ones. 
I've heard that you can "flip" the washers over and reassemble it.
..anyone have any experience in this? or can refer me to someone?   

*one has FELT PADS, what kind of OIL? or solution do you "hydrate" them with?

i may have to find someone who still repairs these things!  i'mcheap&frugal&PROUDofit!

Take them out and send them to Smooth Drag She should be able to get something close. Let me know I have a few also.

Are these Abus?  If so, don't fix them, just come to my house and I'll give a pile of pristine ones.  One of my students gave me a whole box of them.  I don't want them, but they are nice.

Take them out and send them to Smooth Drag She should be able to get something close. Let me know I have a few also.

that is a cool site Mike!  and whut will most likely happen Thanks!

Are these Abus?  If so, don't fix them, just come to my house and I'll give a pile of pristine ones.  One of my students gave me a whole box of them.  I don't want them, but they are nice.

thanks for the offer! 
don't mean to "THUMP a FREE MELON" but what do they look like? Garcias?   red?     
im cheap, but not that! 
 I'm on the bubble about puttin $$ into these.It may be time to GROW-UP and get some real reels.
BUTiCANTrollWITHsomeCHEAPO!   do they have the one-finger-cast?
 
The ones i'm refering to are on the next tier up
Shimano Spirex 4000&2000   
Fenwick 9050 CLASSIC
all are *1-finger flingers and that's why I can't part with them.
(oldies but goodies)

Shimano Spirex 4000&2000   These are the only spin reels I use also!  my 4000 is on my bass rod, and my 2000 is my trout getter!  Haven't looked into repair yet.  When I feel they start to go rough, I simply spray them down with WD40.  Every nook & cranny gets wets wit da stuff! Is this right or wrong? Don't know.  Seems to be working.

  Wow I use same reels as a celebrity on this site! Can I have your autograph?     Lol.......

Troy

Honestly!....get Da'Moochs' signature....   
 they're Hand-Me-Downs from his "old Collection"  complete wit Moochie-MoJo!
....that 4000 got me a 35.5" Halibut!    and my FIRST EVER 27"LING!
nowIT'Swasted!  couldn't have tried to write a better story if I had too!
     IT WENT DOWN FIGHTIN HARD!!

what's the symptom? what is wrong with it?

what's the symptom? what is wrong with it?

J~ one click of the drag, either way, and it goes from SUPER TIGHT to LOOSE as a GOOSE.
I can still catch fish on them, but if it HAPPENS to be a biggun? 
i'llbecryintheblues!   doUknowSOMTHIN?
   

what's the symptom? what is wrong with it?

J~ one click of the drag, either way, and it goes from SUPER TIGHT to LOOSE as a GOOSE.
I can still catch fish on them, but if it HAPPENS to be a biggun? 
i'llbecryintheblues!   doUknowSOMTHIN?
   

not really. alan taught me all I know, but not all he knows,  .

however, I have some mcgyver tendencies.

when you say it is super tight, is it sticky-tight, or just plain old tight?

sounds like you opened them up if you know what the drag washers look like? if so, you can probably fix it, at least for awhile.

you kind of have two choices:

1. fix the loose as a goose situation
2. fix the super tight situation.

for 1, putting in an extra drag washer or replacing some number of existing washers with a thicker or new drag washer might work.

when mcgyvering, the key thing is that the materials don't matter too much, at least in the short term. cut a leather circle with scissors from an old shoe or belt or wallet. put some grease on the leather, stick it in there. or cut a circle from some old jeans, put butter on it, toss it in there,  . it'll work enough to tell you if you can fix it.

don't get hung up on the drag washer material or the lube, at least not now.

if you do this, maybe the loose as a goose situation will go away. if not, you might have some stripped threads. see below.

for 2, put some lube on the washers (anything will do for a short period) and see if the super-tight situation goes away.

if you get this issue fixed, then you can go back later and put in a greased carbon fiber drag washer.

if it's not fixed, then the threads on the post that the drag knob tightens on might be hosed just below the "super tight" portion.  in this case you should make your drag stack smaller so that you use the threads your have left.

so give it a shot, all you have to lose is a little time.

you might want to buy yourself a back-up reel now tho,  .

John

thats alot of work!..i guess i shouldn't of asked!  i was thinkin that someone would tell me throw them away and don't waste time or money on old spinning reels.
Thanks for being like me John, cheap!  and that's a good thing....next bad weather weekend, I'm all over this!

stand by for results>>>>>>

i was thinkin that someone would tell me throw them away and don't waste time or money on old spinning reels.

Or hoping somebody might offer to do it for you?

Michael

which reel (make, model, year) do you have?

I sent you a pm about these rascals already Alan, you told me I was out of luck, so I was seeking further consultation and YOU CAUGHT ME!   I haven't opened them up yet to asses the damages.
The SHIMANO *Spirex~reardrag are old ones,but they "OOZE" Mooch Mo-Jo 
                      4000 and 2000 the drags are bad

The Fenwick HMG #9050 is a tiny guy that has been VERY-VERY-GOOD-TO-ME!
                                  and WANT TO KEEP!  the bail doesn't want to "spring back/hold down" and will pay $$ for repair or RIG-UP! the drag is worn and has FELT PADS.

SIR Alan,  I am planning to attend the seminar at Aquan, I have a Shimano TR-100 and heard about a better drag you had for them.
.... can i bring this lil guy along and see what ills it?
     
                                 

I am planning to attend the seminar at Aquan

Did Mooch already set the date for that?  I remember him saying that he was going to try and get Alan, but I must have missed the post where he lined everything up.

Michael

aquan is not set up for sure.  still working on it.  plan on bringing them over and let me take a look.