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That would make sense. Other than the obvious sound, any recommendations on how to avoid avoid that if at all possible?

Beautiful work! Looks like I will be taking reels apart a lot more often. Any others like the ambassadeur you’d recommend? Also enjoy fishing for trout so if there’s a bfs you’d recommend I’d greatly appreciate it! Tried polishing and adding the ts1321 had no luck . :(. Spins about 1 and a half and stops, also the spool seems to make contact with the reel itself I can hear the grinding. I’m wondering if it could be that the one I have has no bearing and has the t shaped spool shaft like the picture on the left bulldog posted . Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

@bulldog1935 you got an ig?

Those abu’s are inspirational. Just picked one up form offer up on accident (I wanted the salmon steelhead rod) and already taking it apart to shine and lube!