The Traditional Fisherman's Forum

Today this little reel has arrived.


It's a very simple "Grundrolle" - bottom reel built between 1954 and 1964.


The moving parts show some wear, so I guess it has been used a lot.
I cleaned it a little bit and put some oil on it.


The ratchet works fine and the reel is spinnig alright but there's a lot of wobble due to the worn out arbour on the handle side of the reel.





I'm going to use it on a bleak rod as a kind of line storage device.
At the moment the rod looks like that - but that's another story ...

I love the oil can!

Nobby wrote:I love the oil can!

Me to interesting reel Martin...... can't wait to what develops with those sticks

Today I put some line on the reel. I'll have to try it on the river, but I think it will be possible to cast directly off the reel as with a multiplier. There will be some birds nests of course!

The oil can belonged to my late grandmother-in-law.

As for the sticks, Paul, I've cut them a week ago next to a neighbour's garden (the bamboo starts to grow pretty much everywhere). I removed the leaves and cut the two sticks in three parts each. Now all I can do is wait untli it's dry. I'm going to try to built at least one usable rod for bleak fishing. I won't start before christmas though ...

The wobbling at the arbour is a common problem.Mine has it,too..Your reel is a MK II.There was a pre war one with a sunbeam milling on the sideplates.

Good to know, that there's another 495 on the TFF. Do you use yours, TincaTinca?

Yes I do
But seldom.I usw it with a 15ft DAM black cane (Pfefferrohr)rod for my gudgeon ans bleak fishing.Last summer a 2 lbs Crucian too the baitworm.Good to have a few yards line on The spool...