THE ABU CARDINAL 33 - CARDINAL 3

[Lough Currane]

Excellent post BL your knowledge is amazing.

Regards LC

[BeechmereLake]

Thanks LC, Im sure one day if it all gets put together it will make an interesting book

[Tomeland]

You should do a write up on the Abu 333/444/444a as th

[BeechmereLake]

There was quite a few variants of those reels and I probably had 6 or seven of them, If I do a write up then I usually try to own 95% of what was made so I can get good pictures of them, I can do the history of them but without the photos, for me that's is a glass half empty or is it half full

[Tomeland]

As you can see from the photo I only have the common variants and not the rare or special ones.
"that's is a glass half empty or is it half full "... that depends whether you are an optimist or a pessimist

[BeechmereLake]

I was fortunate to get an email from a top collector from Holland who owns one of the rare intermediate Cardinal 3 reels with the Royalty badge on the opposite side of the reel, with his permission I have put the picture into the original post I did to keep it all together, maybe, just maybe I will own the reel one day.

[BeechmereLake]

I have added a picture showing the correct link for a 1st version Cardinal 33, I have been lucky to purchase a 1st version reel so took a picture of the driving link to show the copper grip washer that holds the link and the axle box together, was a very weak idea and was changed in February 1975 to what you see in the picture above, better still I will add pictures of both here.

Thicker gear is for the first version 33


Link on the left is first version 33 showing the locking circlip on the axle box

[RightCharlie]

There was a batch of reels re-issued, that were floating around unused in boxes for a while, I think they may have had a single serial number, anyone remember these?