Hi Dennis, I sent the reel to you. I'm glad you were impressed with it. Thank you for doing a video of it. I hope your viewers enjoyed it. I have maintained many Penn reels after watching your videos and that has been very helpful. Thank you. I am always impressed with how finely the reels are made. I will look forward to more of your videos.
I have a dark green one. I found in my mom's shed.I forgot she had it...from this video I was able to figure how to take it apart,clean and reassemble,while learning a bit of history about the reel.Thank you so much for posting
Thanks so much Dennis. I just picked one up and could not find a schematic. Thanks for the peek. FYI: The Cycloid does not have magnetic braking but is instead centrifugal.
I'm not much for baitcasters, but I may have to look into getting one of these just to have the pleasure of servicing it and experiencing it's quality. I just love to explore the quality American craftsmanship that we'll just never see leaving factories again. I looked into the reel online, and it seems a guy had bought up all the left over reels and parts...ect and was assembling them. It seems the only real manufacturing that was going on was towards the end when he ran out of spools and had to make what they needed to complete what they had left.
Yes he did. I think he was a reel repair service that purchased the parts when they went out. The ORCA story said he was able to assemble about 4000 reels - Thanks
my father came home from the war, he was in the 52-20 "club" the GI Bill paid service personnel $20 a week for 52 weeks, while they were looking for work, which was more money then he was ever paid including his military service , so 20 bucks for a reel was real extravagant
I have one and haven't taken it apart yet; probably will after watching your video. I bought it at an auction on a metal rod and decided to try it out. The crazy thing is it casts fairly well with heavier lures. Really fun to use honestly. Since I haven't opened it up it feels like it needs cleaned/lubed. Quick couple questions for you. I found a few old ads and it looked like they mentioned that it has bearings. In watching your video it looked like there was a bearing on the handle side, did you see any on the one in the video? Second question, I haven't had to replace any bearings on any reels yet (only been fishing a few years now) do you have any recommendations on where to buy reel bearings?
companies used to manufacturing for the military were used to making instruments etc, that were made to close tolerances, a lot of post war reels were over engineered for what they were to be used for
the Ocean City 255 Inductor reel had the magnetic set up also, it came out in'48, they also did government contract work. makes someone wonder what kind of spooky stuff they built during the war, that gave them the idea for magnetic controls
the magnets create an Eddy current, basically a magnetic break, the magnets are moved closer and farther from the spool to control the strength of the magnetic effect. it only works on a metal spool, not on plastic etc
Hi Dennis, I sent the reel to you. I'm glad you were impressed with it. Thank you for doing a video of it. I hope your viewers enjoyed it.
I have maintained many Penn reels after watching your videos and that has been very helpful. Thank you. I am always impressed with how finely the reels are made. I will look forward to more of your videos.
Thanks again! Best wishes - Dennis
I enjoyed it very very much
I have a dark green one. I found in my mom's shed.I forgot she had it...from this video I was able to figure how to take it apart,clean and reassemble,while learning a bit of history about the reel.Thank you so much for posting
That is awesome! Glad to hear your reel has a 2nd Chance - Dennis
Hello Dennis - - This a very cool interesting looking fishing reel - such a smooth
sleek design - very good video .
Thank you Pete. Yes, this one is unusual
Thanks so much Dennis. I just picked one up and could not find a schematic. Thanks for the peek. FYI: The Cycloid does not have magnetic braking but is instead centrifugal.
Very unusual reel. I love the innovation on this one
I'm not much for baitcasters, but I may have to look into getting one of these just to have the pleasure of servicing it and experiencing it's quality.
I just love to explore the quality American craftsmanship that we'll just never see leaving factories again.
I looked into the reel online, and it seems a guy had bought up all the left over reels and parts...ect and was assembling them.
It seems the only real manufacturing that was going on was towards the end when he ran out of spools and had to make what they needed to complete what they had left.
Yes he did. I think he was a reel repair service that purchased the parts when they went out. The ORCA story said he was able to assemble about 4000 reels - Thanks
my father came home from the war, he was in the 52-20 "club" the GI Bill paid service personnel $20 a week for 52 weeks, while they were looking for work, which was more money then he was ever paid including his military service , so 20 bucks for a reel was real extravagant
Yes it was - this was a very expensive reel for the time
I have one and haven't taken it apart yet; probably will after watching your video. I bought it at an auction on a metal rod and decided to try it out. The crazy thing is it casts fairly well with heavier lures. Really fun to use honestly. Since I haven't opened it up it feels like it needs cleaned/lubed. Quick couple questions for you. I found a few old ads and it looked like they mentioned that it has bearings. In watching your video it looked like there was a bearing on the handle side, did you see any on the one in the video? Second question, I haven't had to replace any bearings on any reels yet (only been fishing a few years now) do you have any recommendations on where to buy reel bearings?
I just did a Quick Look at the video and I don't see a bearing in the reel
There's no drag on that reel ?
Correct. The old "knuckle busters" didn't have a drag. Exception, you could reel backwards in order to play a fish.
just as strong a drag as you could back peddle, or use your thumb, people were tougher back then
Thanks for the assist
companies used to manufacturing for the military were used to making instruments etc, that were made to close tolerances, a lot of post war reels were over engineered for what they were to be used for
Just like the early fishing reels were made by clock makers - Thanks again
the Ocean City 255 Inductor reel had the magnetic set up also, it came out in'48, they also did government contract work. makes someone wonder what kind of spooky stuff they built during the war, that gave them the idea for magnetic controls
Yes it does. The George W. Borg company that made the Cycloid, made instrumentation, probably for aircraft, during the war.
the magnets create an Eddy current, basically a magnetic break, the magnets are moved closer and farther from the spool to control the strength of the magnetic effect. it only works on a metal spool, not on plastic etc
Thanks. There is a metal base plate that the spool is attached to. The spool itself is aluminum -