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    Default Cheap Reel needs some help


    I have a very cheap Walmart Special Shakespeare rod and reel combo - the rod is great - -the reel is getting a bit... sticky -- The other day I cast, and tried to start the retreive, and the bail went halfway over and stopped -- took a bit of fiddling to get it working again - -id like to replace it - -but right now money prohibits -- is there a way that I can maybe lube it or something to keep it going for a while?
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    Learn to always close the bail by hand and never by turning the handle. I generally stop the line at the end of the cast with my index finger of the hand holding the rod and then close the bail with the other hand. Sometimes I'm feathering the line with that index finger, and sometimes in a panic mode i stop it short altogether with that index finger.


    Some reels don't even come with the spring, some don't even have a bail, just a roller to tuck the ine under.

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    To answer you question, take a pan of warm water with dishwashing soap. Pull spoil off reel, with a small brush use that soapy water to clean around where nail operates and clean rest of reel. Let dry good then put a drop of reel oil on spool shaft next to inside of reel then lube Pictor points of bail and spring. Then work back and forth by opening and closing bail. That should loosen everything back up.


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