Pillars needed

[Steve]

Seeking help in restoring a 250-yard reel that I can't identify but that looks kinda Montague. It also looks a little like a Pflueger Avalon, except that the headplate is rubber, with a plated-brass band around it. The tailplate is built like this Avalon plate, with 3 threaded pillars, etc.

Anyway, I need two pillars like this. The reel is 1 31/32" between the plates.

Also, the reel could use a new foot. I could live with either a one-piece, cast foot or one with the foot attached to the two bottom pillars. Again, the width is 1 31/32", and the screw holes in the plates for the foot are 21/32" center-to-center.

Does anyone have some parts lying around or have a parts reel I could buy? Please PM me if you do or email me through my website (https://www.antiquefishingreels.info/email.htm). Many thanks for checking!

[john elder]

Steve, it isn't at all like my Pflueger Avalons, but a near dead Ringer for the Montague Avalon, at least on the back plate side and the pillar style. The Montague Catalina also has the characteristics I'm seeing, including that metal plate behind the spider washer, which most do not have; screw-in pillars at the back plate side, and same shoulders on the pillars. But you say yours has an all-rubber face plate??

Here's the Montague Avalon back plate and pillar. This is a 300 yd reel and the pillars are 2 1/4" so your must be a little feller:

[Steve]

Thanks, John. Yeah, the rubber face plate is what throws me, but I'm hoping there's a junker Montague out there that may have the requisite parts.

[Steve]

Mission accomplished! Thanks, y'all.