Ted Williams 945 same as Daiwa 7000C -- Service and Lubrication -- Young Martin's Reels
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- In this video we disassemble, clean, lubricate and reassemble a Ted Williams 945 spinning reel. Aside from color and badging the 945 appears to be an exact clone of the Daiwa 7000C spinning reel.
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Young Martin’s Reels was created to honor my dad Martin B. Stivers of Louisville KY. He was an avid fisherman and repaired thousands of fishing reels in his lifetime. I spent numerous hours watching him do so, but I have forgotten most of what he taught me. Now that he is gone, and I find myself in need of reel repair, so I am learning how it is done and trying my best to pass it on.
If I can be of assistance, feel free to contact me Rick48cj2a@yahoo.com
I would also like to thank Dennis Kuntz of 2nd Chance Tackle. His videos have helped to fill in the gaps in my “reel” knowledge. Without his UA-cam videos I’m afraid Young Martin’s Reels would not exist.
Rick Martin Stivers
You do a very good job my friend on greasing and cleaning and fixing reels I love your videos your the man 😊
William, I’m glad you enjoyed the video. I do try my best to show the best way to service them.
Good video. Friend of mine gave me a 935 ted williams spinning reel. Looks almost new. Was courios on the tear down on it. Thanks for vidéo on it. I'll get to mine soon. Looks like well built reel😅
So far, every Ted Williams reel that I’ve worked on has been a good quality reel.
Rick, the only differences I saw between this Ted Williams and a Daiwa 7000C was the ball bearings and the spool clicker. I’m not positive but I have four 7000C reels and none them have a sealed bearing in them. I know thatt when they were new they were not sold with sealed bearings. Because the Ted Williams reel is also identical to a Daiwa GS-90, the GS-90 did come with bearings like that. Also, none of my 7000C have a plastic clicker under the spool not do any of the GS reels that I have. They are all metal with metal springs. I verified this by looking at my reels. The Sears reel may have made a few economy moves with their reel with those spool clickers. If it originally came with sealed bearings that would have cost more. I personally doubt those are original bearings on the main gear. Just thought you might be interested in these small differences. Great video Rick! - Chris
Chris, as we discussed on the phone, I have no way of knowing if the sealed bearings were factory installed. They could have been added later. I thinking that would have been an upgrade over the 7000C.
I just finished studying the schematics for the 7000C. I the 1974 and 75 versions they don’t show the clicker claw at all. In the 1978 version they show a plastic one like the Ted Williams model has. The 1981 schematic shows the metal claw with the spring and retainer.
The bearing part numbers changed as well:
1974 and 1975 66317611
1978 6-636-6001
1981 6-636-6011
I was unable to find the 1974 and 1978 part numbers listed anywhere else but I was able find the 1981 part number on EBay as a shielded bearing. It kind of hard to go back 40 years and figure out what they did.
Chris, is it possible that all 4 of your reels were manufactured after 1978? That could explain why the bearings and clicker are not the same.
Wow!!! Nice looking reel rick.
Mario, I was holding onto this reel for a while. Then I put it I a drawer and forgot about it. I opened the drawer last night and said, “Hey, I forgot about that reel.” It was time to get it done. It’s a very nice reel and every bit as good as the Daiwa 7000C.
Big fan of the Diawa reel’s Rick
I found my other Diawa bait caster that was missing the nut on the reel handle.
So where was it hiding?
It was under my tool cart in the garage. By the garage door. When I moved the cart I saw it under there.
You can make a steel one for it off other junk reels my friend I have done that with the clicker to a few off my older reels
Absolutely you can. You don't even need to cannibalize from another reel. You can just make one from spring steel. That's what I usually do if it is broken.
Part reels do not destroy any good reels
A lot of dry grease Rick