Wondering if anyone might recognize the freespool parts on this reel as I just got it in and started taking it apart. I was interested in it because I happened to see that it had laminated plates very similare to the Pflueger line of reels like the Avalon, etc. But I also did not see a marking, more specifically, the bulldog medallion that the Pflueger reels come with.
At first the two holes on the head plate looked like they might have been for an add on anti-reverse pin for the Rabbeth handle. But looking closer, the smaller one appears to be for a screw and the larger one had a threaded pin for a lever of some sort. Upon taking it apart, I found pieces of a freespool mechanism. I say pieces because it doesn't seem to work properly. Also, the hard rubber on the head plate had been dug out by hand to fit a cam and yoke for the freespool mechanism.
The cam and yoke look to be crudely done, if not home made?
I was curious if this freespool mechanism looks simliar to any of the patents or freespool mechanisms on other reels. The reel is hand marked on each piece with a #37, like other Pflueger reels we've looked at on this board. I know that none of the laminated reel models had freespool functions and it's some time prior to when Pflueger included clutch style freesools on their new line of reels like the Atlapac and Templar. This reel also came from Ohio. I know it's a stretch but with all these coincidences, is this something someone could have been experimenting with at or for Pflueger?
Ok, Ok stop laughing and set me straight if I'm dreaming. There's lots of other funky stuff on this reel to make it interesting to study, in any case!
Here's something of a little mystery
Brian,
Looks to me like a home-made attempt to duplicate the action of the B/Ocean clutch, the subject of that 1911 patent that's stamped on the star wheels. The operating lever was probably mounted over that hole in the headplate. Can't imagine that anyone who worked at Enterprise would have made anything that crude.
Looks to me like a home-made attempt to duplicate the action of the B/Ocean clutch, the subject of that 1911 patent that's stamped on the star wheels. The operating lever was probably mounted over that hole in the headplate. Can't imagine that anyone who worked at Enterprise would have made anything that crude.