Polishing old reel

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Evert van der Plas
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I bought this old reel from France almost black from dirt and cleaned and polished the reel with steel wool pads and brasso
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Wow Evert that is some transformation............. How many hours did that take you?.

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CWK wrote:Wow Evert that is some transformation............. How many hours did that take you?.
At least 6 hours lol

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That is stunning. Did you completely dismantle it and clean all the parts separately?
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Snape wrote:That is stunning. Did you completely dismantle it and clean all the parts separately?
I was lucky that is was possible to dismantle this reel some reels it is not possible and take a lot of time more to clean. the small Hendryx reels for example
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Very nice indeed.
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