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Weatherby

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cleaning and lubing centerpin reels?
« on: October 13, 2011, 06:27:02 PM »
Hey all. How do you go about cleaning up your centerpin reel's? What do you use to clean the bearings?Do you use any grease anywhere on the reel? or just sewing machine oil?

Thanks
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CohoMan

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Re: cleaning and lubing centerpin reels?
« Reply #1 on: October 13, 2011, 06:36:16 PM »
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Fish Assassin

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Re: cleaning and lubing centerpin reels?
« Reply #2 on: October 13, 2011, 07:31:33 PM »
One thing I never ever do is to dump my centerpin or any reel into the river to take a picture.
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Matt

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Re: cleaning and lubing centerpin reels?
« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2011, 03:48:50 PM »
Lighter fluid works well to clean old grease/ oil out of reels.
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Re: cleaning and lubing centerpin reels?
« Reply #4 on: October 14, 2011, 08:23:42 PM »
what ever u do.... don't use 3in1 oil on ur bushing centre pin !!!!
Ive been using white lithium grease, just a small dab and its been good !
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Re: cleaning and lubing centerpin reels?
« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2011, 09:19:15 PM »
on old style bushing reels I used Youngs 303 (gun oil) ,or singer sewing machine oil. any oil will gum up, center pins like guns need a cleaning after an outing.
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