To the OP, can you show some images of your braking mech?raindance wrote:Sorry for the late reply, here are some pictures. It has a weird braking system that just has 2 of those little plastic things for centrifugal.
I am looking at the schematic for the CU-100 dated 1992, and the Black Magnum dates back to 1987 and right on up to when this first curado was made which is comparable to your Scorpion- as has been noted...
These reels are transitional reels in the Shimano line. Before the black magnum, Shimano built reels with independent set plates that were removable from the reels. Today the mechs are built right on the frame itself.
And the Black Magnums which slightly predate yours and the CU-100 are the reels that fall in between the two eras of reel building- going from the old set plate designs into the newer frame based designs.
It should be noted Shimano quickly dropped the flippin' switch, the fighting star drag mech, (which I actually liked using and still use on my spinning reels) and they dropped the back reeling switch that turned off the AR.
When Shimano hit the B series and newer, these features from the set plate days were gone! Another change was the introduction of the AR bearing which the reels with set plates did not have.
My point is, these reels mentioned here, the scorpion 2000, the CU-100, and Black Magnums all share the same lineage and represent that fluid middle ground of a company making some major changes in reel design having to leave some features in the past while they moved on into the future. These reels were shimano's learning curve reels in a way.
Oh, back to the point of this comment... the OP said his scorpion has centrifugal brakes. I was curious about this because I have the CU-100 schematic open and it shows that Shimano made 2 versions of this reel which may or may not apply to your scorpion, but, sadly, this CU-100 has magnetic braking system and not a centrifugal braking system.
So there are possibly some more parts that won't swap out directly- unless maybe you can swap this reel back and forth between the two braking systems? A side plate and spool for one, and side plate and spool for the other kind of thing might be possible, not sure.
But if you can, please post an image of your braking system. If it is centrifugal, then it is not the same as the Curado CU-100.
Oh, and I was cross checking some of the parts between the CU-100 and old Black Magnum predecessor to the curado and found a couple of part numbers identical and matching and interchangeable, but only those so far. And they did change the flippin' switch setup to the point of where the side plate of CU-100 or your scorpion 2000 would be easier to remove and replace than the earlier version found in the Black Magnum.
Some cool old reels! I cut my teeth on those earlier Shimano reels of the 80's back when we use to actually polish inside of pinion gears and spool axles.