Spinning Reel Cleaning

[cadman]

For those of you guys that clean your spinning reels. What is your process. I am more interested about what do you do to your bearings inside the reel. Do you clean inside of the body completely? If you do, do you oil or grease your frame bearings and what about any other bearings. The gears and the moving parts I assume everyone puts grease on. Please let me know your thoughts on this.

[zalan]

If it is a shielded, closed bearing, I just wipe it clean, do not touch the inside if it works fine. If it is noisy, I just replace it. If it is open, you can easily clean it a regrease.

[Slazmo]

Pull everything down to its smallest part and deep clean everything - bearings get soaked in degreaser and brushed to agitate any caked grease from the years.

Anything less isn't a service but a wipe and oil / lube job, and there are a lot of guys doing this calling it a service which it's not.