The click prawl has a beveled side...can you tell me for a RHW which direction that beveled side should point?
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Medalist click prawl
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Sport
Posts: 18 (04/29/09 10:39:49) |
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Posts: 4982 (04/29/09 12:07:52) Administrator |
hope this helps
the rods are never obsolete - the marketing is.
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Sport
Posts: 19 (04/29/09 13:22:47) |
Darn, I knew somehow I wasn't clear...
I mean the click prawl under the drag plate of a medalist....happens to be a 1498 Sorry about that. |
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Guide
Posts: 63 (04/29/09 13:31:19) |
The bevel on the clicker should match the bevel on the drag plate
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Posts: 4983 (04/29/09 16:55:11) Administrator |
what Pete said - the ramps on the drag plate and the ramp on the pawl should be as close to parallel as possible.
the rods are never obsolete - the marketing is.
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Sport
Posts: 20 (04/29/09 17:36:11) |
Thanks ...I now have a click where there wasn't before.
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Sport
Posts: 21 (04/30/09 08:50:53) |
This reel has one of those convertible bakelite like drag plates currently set up for RHW. There are 4 little circular shallow holes between the ramps...when
reeling in these can be felt as a little resistance and actually give a little thunk like sound. I didn't like that so took a dremel drill and beveled the
circles...no more resistance or sound.
I hope I didn't mess someting up but this reel that had many problems is now purring like a kitten. 
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Sport
Posts: 25 (04/30/09 11:44:06) |
Those ramps, terminating in the holes you refer to, engage a spring-loaded pin on the back side of the spool. On wind, the pin slides up the ramp, and drops into the hole (little thunk like sound). On pay, the pin is captured in the hole, and drag plate will be rotated, bringing the drag mechanism into function. No engagement, no drag. My two cents on possible result of your modification. |
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Guide
Posts: 197 (04/30/09 12:34:33) |
Holy cats! a Bunyan Bug!
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Guide
Posts: 198 (04/30/09 12:41:07) |
Medalist drag shoes are made of "Micarta." Layered, fiber sheets in a phenolic bonding material--tough stuff.
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dman |
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Sport
Posts: 23 (04/30/09 12:45:37) |
When I engage the drag...and turn the spool to pay out...the drag seems to work just fine...my take on it is is that on the pay the pin engages the 90
degree/perpendicular end of the ramp and that is what engages the drag. Those holes were very shallow and seemed to act more as an irregularity...I really
doubt that the pin could stay engaged..in fact, as I think of it.... why wouldn't they engage on reeling in also.... I figured they had to do with the
manufacturing process. At any rate it seems to work just fine.
Someone set us straight. |
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