Old reel gets a new life

[Brodie_S]

Yesterday late arvo I seen my great grandfathers reel that was passed down to My nan . She even engraved her name Onto the reel I knew it was to special to just sit in my room 24/7 so I decided to give the dusty reel a service . First thing I did was take apart the drag stack gave it a minor clean up didn’t bother greasing the drag stack as it was carbon not felt . Then I took the side plate off and not surprisingly the grease on the brass main gear was dry I managed to wipe it off with baby wipes sprayed with WD40 and then I dried it with regular tissues to make sure I didn’t leave trace of WD40 around . I then used some grease that is suitable for this reel it was a anti seize petroleum based black grease Similar to penns blue grease . I coated the brass main gear with the grease using Q tips worked excellent I then moved to the ratchet part and the bolt thing in the reel don’t know what it’s called but I done the same thing wiped all the old grease off and reel greased it put it back together gave the reel a good wipe down with standard baby wipes and gave it a spin and to my surprise it spun for ages and the ratchet was a lot louder I turned the ratchet sound off though lmao I found out the reel has a silent mode like on a phone . The reel is super smooth now and I’m happy with it I don’t know when the reel was last used but my nan lived in Sydney and fished comps when she lived there and won a bunch of trophies.then she moved to orange and never went fishing again. Hopefully I can test this reel out although I’m not really sure what to do with it and what to match it up with I’m pretty sure the reel weights a good kilo to .unfortunately my nan passed away 3 years ago now so I can’t ask her .im sure she should would be happy it’s getting a new life and it’s gonna be used more .any advice appreciated it’s non casting so I can’t use it for beach fishing it’s a Alvey 925 C52 snapper reel . It’s got line on it but I don’t think it has much left and also it’s pretty old so I’ll props replace it.  Update I finished writing this and the internet went down and I was worried it wouldn’t have saved everything luckily it did lol 

[ellicat]

Don't know anything about a non casting Alvey. Perhaps send them an email or look them up on Facebook and pose the question.

[Old Scaley]

The Alvey Snapper reels were usually teamed up with a short, stout fibreglass rod and used offshore for dropping paternoster rigs for snapper and reef fish. There are also snapper winches which are similar but bigger and attach to the gunwhale of boats for offshore work. Strong and durable with a fast retrieve, but not a sportsfishing reel.

[kmcrosby78]

Spot on @Old Scaley - I picked one up free with my boat and Dad now uses it when we go offshore to fish the bottom. In Moreton Bay it would be overkill for most things except those big tuskies.

[Brodie_S]

33 minutes ago, Old Scaley said:

The Alvey Snapper reels were usually teamed up with a short, stout fibreglass rod and used offshore for dropping paternoster rigs for snapper and reef fish. There are also snapper winches which are similar but bigger and attach to the gunwhale of boats for offshore work. Strong and durable with a fast retrieve, but not a sportsfishing reel.

Yeah thanks makes sense now my nan had a short fibreglass rod which I have now will probably pear them up together . I’m thinking of maybe spooling it with 30lb mono. 30lb should be fine for paternoster rigs offshore right? 

[Old Scaley]

3 minutes ago, Breaming with bro said:

Yeah thanks makes sense now my nan had a short fibreglass rod which I have now will probably pear them up together . I’m thinking of maybe spooling it with 30lb mono. 30lb should be fine for paternoster rigs offshore right? 

Go as heavy as you like. These things were designed for skulldragging big fish up from the bottom so no point going too light.

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

Looks good Bro - just shows the Alvey's are as durable as (well I can't think of anything to compare them too ).

Cheers Hamish

[Brodie_S]

31 minutes ago, AUS-BNE-FISHO said:

Looks good Bro - just shows the Alvey's are as durable as (well I can't think of anything to compare them too ).

Cheers Hamish

Durable as a nokita 3310?

[Angry51]

10 hours ago, Breaming with bro said:

Durable as a nokita 3310?

What size/ who makes that reel?

[Brodie_S]

1 hour ago, Angry51 said:

What size/ who makes that reel?

It’s a Alvey 925 C52 non casting snapper reel 

[Angry51]

I meant the nokita 3310.

[Brodie_S]

2 hours ago, Angry51 said:

I meant the nokita 3310.

Haha look up nokita 3310 and see what comes up in images

[ellicat]

It's just Nokia...no 'T'

[Angry51]

1 hour ago, ellicat said:

It's just Nokia...no 'T'

That's why I asked.