Here is an ad for the reel, touting it's features and highlighting that "minute hand" clicker control found on many Malleson reels:
Roger's reel showed its age and had lost most of its plating, but was still clearly badged for Conroy and the outside was intact:
Taking a look at the gear stack revealed that the critical drive gear was missing. However, the drive shaft was totally frozen up in the spool so that the spool still turned:
Here is a video of my Malleson with similar gears so you can see how it should behave:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/oitittgatazak ... 2.MOV?dl=0
So, I put some Kroil on the drive shaft, then heated the spool with a torch. A few good raps with a plastic hammer on the drive shaft liberated it from the spool:
Give the degraded condition of the end of the old drive shaft, it was necessary to turn a new steel shaft, making the faceplate end compatible with the handle and the back plate side suitable to wed to a drive gear. I squared off the latter end similar to how the shaft in my Malleson as well as drilled and tapped that end to receive a 2-56 retaining screw:
After riffling through my stash of gears, I found only one candidate that might work. It was an aluminum gear, rather than brass and the center hole was too large, but I threaded and plugged it with brass,
fixed in place with JB Weld@. I drilled a hole in the center, then squared it off to fit on the new drive shaft:
Given the difficulty of getting gears to mesh properly, I had primal doubts this was going to work....but amazingly, it did, and yielded a 2:1 gear ratio on to of that! I doubt I'll ever get that lucky again...twas stupid luck to get that gear to mesh with Malleson's!
https://www.dropbox.com/s/uvs2p57crikrs ... 5.MOV?dl=0
