Walkers BB reel - material used
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Keep going Steve, I for one would be most interest in you progress and efforts. I've found surprisingly little information online regarding reel making as opposed to rod making.
I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
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Boogie, BoogieWallys-Cast wrote: ↑Sun Jan 28, 2018 3:23 pm Swarf is good stuff too Steve, they make robots wigs out of it you know.
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As one of those who has been lucky enough to hold the reel Dick Walker made I can say that my very first thought on having it in my hands was how light it was for its size.
Just what it is made from I have no idea and I had just the same surprise in store for me when I held the 'Conquest' made for ted by Leszek. It just might be that Dick had access to a fancy aircraft grade aluminium alloy of similar properties.
The only answer is to get some swarf off Dick's reel and try and light it........over to you, John.........
Just what it is made from I have no idea and I had just the same surprise in store for me when I held the 'Conquest' made for ted by Leszek. It just might be that Dick had access to a fancy aircraft grade aluminium alloy of similar properties.
The only answer is to get some swarf off Dick's reel and try and light it........over to you, John.........
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Hi Nobby, I have tried to ignite the "Thorndike Reel" with a blow lamp but it just melted the handles and discoloured the front plate.
If you have no grease with you, and your rings are full of ice, do not cut out the ice with a pen-knife but get your man to put the rings one by one in his mouth, and so to thaw the ice.
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Thank you John, when I read this I laughed and spilt cold beer down my shirt!
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Ah, that's a bugger. Still ....easy come easy go..........there'll be another along soon.
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I may not have used a blow lamp on a reel, but I did once bury an Aerial in the flower bed of my garden! A previous owner had polished it to a “Bright” finish and I was told that burying it for a few weeks would age it! I was not advised to protect the xylonite handles and when I dug it up they had deteriorated badly. It just goes to prove how naive I am, I am honest though!
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