J.A. Coxe 9/0 HELP

BAP-62 · Post by **BAP-62** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 2:45 pm

I picked up a J.A. Coxe 9/0 yesterday. I need to take it apart to clean it. Been able to take it apart except for the tail plate. Does the the tail plate come off the metal ring, if so how? I can figure how to take most reels apart, but this has got me. Thanks

Post by **john elder** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 5:29 pm

If you check the Reel News issues from the last couple years, I had articles showing how you break down both the screwed and no-screw Coxe big game reels, with lots of pics. Sounds like you have the screw model and the tail plate on that one is riveted to the frame...you don't want to take that off.

BAP-62 · Post by **BAP-62** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 7:15 pm

john elder wrote:If you check the Reel News issues from the last couple years, I had articles showing how you break down both the screwed and no-screw Coxe big game reels, with lots of pics. Sounds like you have the screw model and the tail plate on that one is riveted to the frame...you don't want to take that off.

I have the one on the no-screw Coxe, but had no problem in taking it apart. When I got to the screwed one I rembered that there was an article on them and that's when I found the one for the no-screw.
If the plate is riveted to the frame how do you remove the post or don't you?

Post by **john elder** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 7:35 pm

You don't ...this is as far as you want to take the reel down. You can easily clean the posts, seat and inner side of the tailplate on this riveted frame. The inner faceplate side comes off by removal of 6 screws in the cross-members and seat. Let me know if you need me to post other pics.

BAP-62 · Post by **BAP-62** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 7:48 pm

That's where I got to. I'm surprised that the reel was made this way. The only way you could replace the foot or post was to send it back so the rivets could be removed, replace the bad parts and re-rivet the plate. The foot is screwed to the plate. I wonder if the post were also screwed to it or the end peened over like the Bronson-Coxe no screw reel? I guess we will never know. Thanks for the help, now I know I didn't miss anything.

BAP-62 · Post by **BAP-62** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 10:36 pm

John
When Bronson started making this reel did they refer to it as the "Zane Grey" style?

Post by **john elder** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 5:34 pm

No, that was a mistake in the article I wrote, then corrected in the following issue. As Ed Pritchard pointed out, the 'Zane Grey' model referred specifically to the 12/0 size "no screw" model. ...and to top it off, I had thought from the pics I had seen that the big "screw"...actually a bolt...through the center of that reel was why people were referring to it as the "screw model"...had it just backwards---that is the "no screw" model, based on the fact that it lacks the 6 screws that hold on the faceplate of the other "screw" model. A better designation for the 'no Screw would be the "quick take-apart" model, since that is what that bolt is all about.

Now, that should be clear as mud. I am assuming that they riveted that plate on in order to impart strength to what amounts to a very thin sideplate. these reels were designed to pull in some serious fish and Coxe's mission was to make his reels tougher than the others out there on the market.