just found this Ambidex at the boot fair, and am trying to guess the age, it has brass side plates but also has LTD, just a drop of oil and it spins a treat, a quick look inside and it looks to have never been grease just oiled.
the only thing I have found at fault is the brass springy thing behind the spool, it looks like the little hump has so worn that it has snapped off, only allowing the spool to move in one direction [wrong one] without jamming, I presume others have come across the same problem and wondered what they have done to solve the problem, bend it right out of the way or try and put another 2hump2 back in it ?
latest Ambidex
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Re: latest Ambidex
Elwyn Attwood's excellent book "J. W. Young & Sons. A Century of the Art of Making Fishing Reels' suggests that the colour of the finish and the brass name plate makes this a No. 1 Type 2 dating to circa 1947 (the Type 3 had an aluminium name plate).
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Re: latest Ambidex
many thanks