Here is a Flea Bay find needing a Thorough Cleaning and De Grunging.
It looked like it was beyond saving but a bit of work She cleaned right up and all the stuff shines again !
While I was messing with it I noticed it only had 2 Pissy little Rubbery Drag Washers along with a Fiber Board and looked all original like Star Trek (no one had gone in there before )....lol
Any way here is some pix of its redo along with some Modifying the Sideplate so you can use 3 Carbon Tex Drags in it .
Here it is right out of the package
Spool no look so good
Suprisingly after some penetrate and good old soap and water and some polishing it came out NICE
as did the guts
And der sideplates
Now cleaning up the guts and putting in Three Carbon Tex Washers
The side plate has to be ground out a little so the top washer won't lock everything up when assembled
Ended up with about 10 to 15 thousandths removed .
and she looks like this when done
You can see here in the next pic where the top thrust Washer was rubbing on the inside of the plate
ALL BETTER
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