Reel Corrosion... Show & corrosion hell...
Posted: Sun May 27, 2018 2:28 am
So I've come across a few corroded reels in my time with servicing, lots of Steez's, Exists (non Zaion), Chronarch MG's, Aldarbaren's, Stella's, Core's, Metanium's, and the list seems to go on and on and on...
Here in Aus it seems that our salt water is pretty harsh in comparison to elsewhere in the world, and the ownership of reels is a real one sided abusive relationship especially when it comes to servicing!
So wanted to post a couple of pictures.
Non more than the last two reels I purchased. A Core 50 Mg, and a Calais 200 DC... Now the Core was purchased in the end for $100 and the Calais for $25 - go figure...
Ive always wanted a Calais - yet when one presented in this form I couldn't leave it be - it'll come good.
Onto the pictures.
The Calais has a new lease on life planned for it. A complete strip of all the Chrome plating (which in my honest opinion is lunacy for the environment it encounters), a soda blasting to rid all corrosion off the body halves and hood, and strip the paint off the frame (but leave inner greyed surfaces of gearbox and left side)...
So I guess these are cautionary pictures of Mg corrosion in primary, however all metals can and will corrode - given the time and the environment for it.
Here in Aus it seems that our salt water is pretty harsh in comparison to elsewhere in the world, and the ownership of reels is a real one sided abusive relationship especially when it comes to servicing!
So wanted to post a couple of pictures.
Non more than the last two reels I purchased. A Core 50 Mg, and a Calais 200 DC... Now the Core was purchased in the end for $100 and the Calais for $25 - go figure...
Ive always wanted a Calais - yet when one presented in this form I couldn't leave it be - it'll come good.
Onto the pictures.
The Calais has a new lease on life planned for it. A complete strip of all the Chrome plating (which in my honest opinion is lunacy for the environment it encounters), a soda blasting to rid all corrosion off the body halves and hood, and strip the paint off the frame (but leave inner greyed surfaces of gearbox and left side)...
So I guess these are cautionary pictures of Mg corrosion in primary, however all metals can and will corrode - given the time and the environment for it.