Zebco 89 (1965 - 1966) -- Service and Lubrication -- Young Martin's Reels
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ธ.ค. 2024
- In this video we disassemble, clean, lubricate and reassemble a Zebco 89 Saltwater spincast reel that was manufactured in 1965 or 1966.
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Young Martin’s Reels was created to honor my dad Martin B. Stivers of Louisville KY. He was an avid fisherman and repaired thousands of fishing reels in his lifetime. I spent numerous hours watching him do so, but I have forgotten most of what he taught me. Now that he is gone, and I find myself in need of reel repair, so I am learning how it is done and trying my best to pass it on.
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Rick Martin Stivers
Boy, none of the covers of the Spincast reels o’ve been working on came off that easily. If fact, it hurt my hands to work on the four I recently serviced. This is one impressive reel Rick! I’m also impressed that this reel appears to be fairly easy to service. I instantly knew why you had no clicker. This was an impressive video Rick! For a spinning reel guy like me it is saying something that I;d love to have a Zebco 88! Thanks Rick! - Chris
All it needs to be a modern saltwater reel is the addition of a power handle! Joking, of course. But it reminds me of the question I've been asking every time I get my hands on an older Penn conventional reel: why were the handles on so many older reels so short?
For example:
The handle used on a Penn JigMaster 500 is much more comfortable to me than the shorter ones used on the Penn 350, 200, 155, and 140. The longer handles on modern Ambassadeur 5000-size reels are more comfortable for me than the short handles used back in the 70s. Maybe handle size increased as gear ratios increased? But I find I prefer the slightly longer handles even with the lower ratio retrieves.
@@warpedweirdo Longer handles obviously give you more leverage but you have to use more motion to make the same rotation. My guess is they were really just getting the hang of making reels. The only time I would want a longer handle is if I had a big fish on. I grew up with the short handles and I’m pretty much adjusted to that length.
@@youngmartinsreels5314 It's not about increasing "power" or reducing movement for me. For whatever reason, I'm able to turn a JigMaster-sized handle both more smoothly _and_ more rapidly than the shorter ones. Really gotta spin the handle fast on an old reel with a 3:1 ratio when I want to get line back quickly. My body goes out of sync more easily with the shorter handles than with the longer ones. Same when the handle is too long.
Maybe you've got a point! I just measured, and the radius of a Penn 4200SS handle is pretty close to that of a handle from a Penn 500. The 4200SS is the reel I've spent the most time using throughout my life, by far. So maybe that's what my muscles and nerves are tuned for. On the other hand, I have to use my right hand to spin the handle on a conventional, while I use my left hand for a spinner.
Man, that looks like a brute reel of the 808 class. Don't remember that model.
Mike stumbled across two of them in a week and then I’ve never come across them again. I’m taking this one fishing and the other one I’m sending to Jim. He says that aside from the drag system, it’s just like the 808.
It looks almost like an 808 rick.
Never seen one for saltwater
Plastic. Body with stainless steel parts Nice reel.