Refurbished the Hodder by Albert Smith

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Evert van der Plas
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Refurbished the Hodder by Albert Smith

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Hi Gents
This Hodder was send to me for a good clean up and to remove a wobble, First removed all parts that where removable, some screw where very tight and would course more damage then good to remove them so i let them in.
there was still paint on it but not much, removed it with paint stripper and after the paint stripper did the job i cleaned it with fine steel wool.
the dark stains in the metal removed with fine sanding paper and after a few rounds polishing with cots brite and brasso it start to look nice.
The line pillars i took out to clean them and made a planning board to replace them later when all was cleaned up.
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This was a nice project and hope to find one for my own collection

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A quite superb transformation Evert ..

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Brilliant as ever - how did you remove the wobble?

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Very nice job, superbly done

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Shed_Monkey wrote: Sat Sep 02, 2017 9:29 pm Brilliant as ever - how did you remove the wobble?

Cheers
Steve
The Wobble was a serious problem be course there was a hair crack at the rim, i used two pieces brass strip on every side on the spot from the wobble and put it between a vise and try to press the wobble out, The wobble is still there but less then it was. it is the only way to do it. Bending is not a option with this kind off metal, it will brake in pieces at once when you try. seen it before and after that it is game over for the reel.

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Thanks for sharing the info, that really is quite a transformation and of course the reel lives on.

Well done.

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Its a beautiful reel now . Cracking job :Thumb:

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Well done Evert another superb clean up job.

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Awesome :tea:
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