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Joe Watts
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I just joined this great informational forum.

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I joined this forum yesterday and I am looking forward to learning about what kind of an accumulator I am and where to contribute any worthwhile information I have. Thank you for the opportunity to be here.
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Welcome, Joe! Tell us about your interests.
Love those Open Face Spinning Reels! (Especially ABU & ABU/Zebco)

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Thank you Midway Tommy D.

In terms of what I have been collecting/accumulating in round reels I have older Pflueger, Ocean City, and Penn, mostly because they were easy to obtain a joy to own. I also have various brands of old and some early spinning reels.
I like to remove old grease from these reels and get them running smooth again which has made my hair turn grey.
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Welcome to Reel Talk! Looking forward to seeing some of your restorations. Be sure to read the sticky post on photo posting.
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Thank you kyreels.

Yes, I have to figure out photo posting.
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Trying to post a photo.

Meisselbach No.50

Well, this isn't going well.

Maybe later.



This seems to be as far as I can get.

Another effort.

Image

Obviously, I'm not following the script.




To my surprise I stumbled my way into getting a image in the post.
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Good job, Joe, and a fine reel! Meisselbach reels are a popular collectible with quite a few people in ORCA. Both Phil White and Roger Schulz have written excellent books about this prolific reel-making company.
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Welcome Joe,

These instructions are in the announcements on every forum. viewtopic.php?t=15596. The trick you are missing is to insert the image shortcake tags into your posts using the helper code on the image upload window.

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[rimg]https://images.orcaonline.org/u/24887/934F0E95-45AF-4CB6-B868-2CF37321C87B%20%286%29.jpeg[/rimg]
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Hi, Joe. Welcome.

After you upload your image(s) just choose (click) "thumbnail" or "Regular" and the code will be inserted wherever your cursor was in your post. Will look like this:
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