Aerial Prawls
- Dave Burr
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Aerial Prawls
I have recently acquired three Aerial reels, a Match Aerial a 516 and a 518
All of them are set to right hand drive which I don't like but the prawl (correct word?) is not reversible. I would really like to feel the ratchet adding drag as a fish takes line or as a bite indicator so am on the look out for some 'left hand prawls'. Am I making sense?
Out there in TFF land there are many men with talents and abilities well beyond my comprehension so, I implore you, can anybody make such an item? If so, and as long as they are not stupidly expensive I should like four (as my lad has a Match too).
This then is your challenge - who can take up the cudgel and show the angling world that they are indeed worthy of the acclaim that shall be poured upon them by their co-members.
Pretty please
All of them are set to right hand drive which I don't like but the prawl (correct word?) is not reversible. I would really like to feel the ratchet adding drag as a fish takes line or as a bite indicator so am on the look out for some 'left hand prawls'. Am I making sense?
Out there in TFF land there are many men with talents and abilities well beyond my comprehension so, I implore you, can anybody make such an item? If so, and as long as they are not stupidly expensive I should like four (as my lad has a Match too).
This then is your challenge - who can take up the cudgel and show the angling world that they are indeed worthy of the acclaim that shall be poured upon them by their co-members.
Pretty please
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Re: Aerial Prawls
Thought it pawls
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Re: Aerial Prawls
Yeah but I'm from the West Country so everything has an ARRRRR! in it
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Re: Aerial Prawls
Its not so much the shape of the pawls but the position of the spring which acts on it at an angle. Taking some of the pressure off the spring and slightly re shaping it can make them a bit more left hand wind friendly.
Its a bit experimental until you get it right but they do feel and sound a bit better once done.
Wal.
Its a bit experimental until you get it right but they do feel and sound a bit better once done.
Wal.
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Re: Aerial Prawls
I believe some of the Aerials had a pawl of such a shape that it could be reversed to make the reel left hand wind?? I'm not at all certain of this and a 'phone call to Garry Mills is surely called for. Garry, incidentally makes such pawls for these reels anyway.
The type of pawl I 'think' might be reversible is these:
http://www.reelantiqueangling.co.uk/med ... 040273.jpg
They're not strictly pawls by definition, but it's what they are generally called:
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/defin ... glish/pawl
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PRQIUF6XCsc/U ... 0/pawl.gif
The type of pawl I 'think' might be reversible is these:
http://www.reelantiqueangling.co.uk/med ... 040273.jpg
They're not strictly pawls by definition, but it's what they are generally called:
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/defin ... glish/pawl
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PRQIUF6XCsc/U ... 0/pawl.gif
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Re: Aerial Prawls
Where would be the difference between a "catch" and a "pawl" then? From the drawing there would act the same way??
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- Dave Burr
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Re: Aerial Prawls
I think I've spotted the difference OT - they're spelt differentlyOldTackle wrote:
Where would be the difference between a "catch" and a "pawl" then? From the drawing there would act the same way??
Thanks for the help chaps, I'm working on it
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Re: Aerial Prawls
Dave,
When you go out for a meal do you have a pawn cocktail starter?
When you go out for a meal do you have a pawn cocktail starter?
"You do not cease to fish because you get old, you get old because you cease to fish"
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And when I want to pay I say to the waiter "Cheque mate!"Bob Brookes wrote:Dave,
When you go out for a meal do you have a pawn cocktail starter?