More Cleaning.....Oceanic & Interocean

[Rick H]

Got 'em as a lot...

[john elder]

Gorgeous, rick!

[kingfisher]

Rick,

Two reels that would hardly have got a second look are now both mesmerizing .
All hail the "King of Shine"

Ray

[Rick H]

Much appreciated Guys. They may not fit everyone's definition of "antique, old, vintage, nicely patina'd"...but they'll live to see another collector, somewhere down the road.

[Wayne B.]

Rick - Nice Job!

Wayne

[reelsmith.]

Wow !

I wouldn't even have tried cleaning those.

You've got far more patience than I.

Nice work.

Dean.

[Rick H]

Well...they're low end reels Dean. That's all I can afford to play with.

[Marlinmate]

What did you use to get them so clean?

[Rick H]

Marlinmate...LOL. Let's just say that...I use a method that most don't approve of. I first soak 'em anywhere from 2 hours to overnight, depending on the grime build-up. Then they get scrubbed with a toothbrush in a sink full of medium hot water with dish-washing soap (just hot enough not to burn your hands). They then get dried with a cotton towel (or rag...if you want to live). Next they get buffed whith a 6 inch bench-grinder sporting a 6 inch cotton buffing wheel. I use a medium grit jeweler's rouge applied to the cotton wheel and just buff away "carefully". Very Carefully!

Short of that method...Simichrome / a rag or two / and lots of hand polishing.

[john elder]

Marlinmate! Rick does a fantastic job and as he indicated, the buffer used properly is certainly no worse than most of us do using a rag and metal polish while watching TV . Concerns have mainly been expressed about getting too exuberant and rounding off corners and such...easy to do if you are as impatient as I am...clearly, Rick is at another level!

There are also those that do not believe in polishing at all and just want the reels left as found...most of us are NOT in that category unless the reel in question is over 100 years or so old...or really valuable...and there's the rub! Who decides that? It's really up to the individual. Even the most die-hard don't-clean advocates would have a hard time faulting rick's clean-up of these fairly common production reels that sorely needed the help!

Roger Schulz is in the process of putting together a book on reel cleaning and repair and Rick has been asked to prepare a chapter on his cleaning methods for inclusion in the book. He will describe how to do it right without causing irreparable harm and give some insights as to how he comes to a go-no go decision about extent of cleaning. This is going to be a great book for everyone to have, with all viewpoints given air.

[Rick H]

The book John refers to is going to be the single most important legacy of ORCA...someday (IMHO). I can't think of a greater contribution to the collecting world than the compilation of talents, experience, knowledge, methods, tricks and cautions for cleaning and restoration, all pulled together into one concise package. There will be some GREAT contributions by some HIGHLY knowledgable folks for the generations to come. NOW...there's a true investment for the future and a legacy to be proud of.

[Reel Addictive]

I found this old post and got really excited at the bottom.

However, I searched other posts and didn't see any further info.

Did this book ever come to fruition?

This seem like an incredibly worthwhile project and I hope someone endeavors to complete it someday.

Reserve me a copy.

William.

[john elder]

It's at the publishers, getting a final...we hope to have it available by the Nationals in September.

[Jonathan P. Kring]

Hey Rick I might have a couple of beaters like that I bought from Elder awhile back. How much do you charge for restoration? You could go into business doing that in retirement instead of being an aerospace engineer, Fantastic job. What a talent!

[robert ellis]

Don't think I will be able to make the Nationals, but John will ya grab me a book also with signatures of all who have contributed to the making of it, can't wait to see it come true!

[Rick H]

Jon,
Just pack 'em up and send 'em to me. I'd be happy to spit polish them for ya.

[Jonathan P. Kring]

I' ll have to see for sure what I've got. I was really only kidding, but that would be great. What you do is alot more than spit polishing. Jon

[Jonathan P. Kring]

Going to bring a reel that Rick brought back from the dead for me with his spit polish to the nationals for show and tell.

[Chuck Gano]

you have inspired me rick, i recently bought the exact pflueger oceanic from kip on joes board,in about the same condition, when it arrives ill post before and after pics.,unless it turns out like crap then ill say it got lost in the mail
c.g.

[Rick H]

I'd love to see the pics Chuck.

[Chuck Gano]

the reel on the left is the one im cleaning,these are kips pics. mine got deleted,somehow ill show the finished reel in a few days,weeks,years whatever it takes
charlie

[Rick H]

Sooooo yer the one who bought those! THAT was a good buy!
I was about ready to pull the trigger, when I saw Kip's SOLD post.

[Chuck Gano]

never got a bad deal from him,and always as found as you can see,ill post the finished pic. the small one is a 100 yd. needs a foot,someone filed it
c.g.

[Chuck Gano]

oh yea i was going to ask what the age of this reel might be but when i opened it up on the inside of head plate were initials and 6-22-28 so im assuming it was made around that time
c.g.

[Chuck Gano]

http://i1349.photobucket.com/albums/p76 ... c9d258.jpg well here it is done completely by hand,ouch i quit when my fingers started to hurt,not as good as ricks but what a change,these are a lot harder then the spinning reels i clean-up, i could clean 5 mitchells in the time this one took
charlie g.