Musky Reel Maintenance

[Nalod]

Hey Guys,

As a winter project, I decided to try to learn how to do maintenance on reels. I have been doing my research, and tried some work on one of them this afternoon. While I know there are other things I could have done (replace paper washers, get rid of some plastic parts, remove all grease in bearings and re-grease, etc), I think my first attempt went well.

Does anyone else do their own maintenance? I would love to be able to bounce ideas and questions off of others.

Also, does anyone have any good tests to make sure that the maintenance went well (especially things that will tell me if I used too much or too little grease/oil). I tested the reel by casting in my back yard and pulling real hard on the drag to see if it would slip.

--Joe