What is the difference between a horseshoe and telephone latch?
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Posts: 2283 01/16/2009 20:38 |
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Posts: 671 01/16/2009 20:50 |
A horseshoe latch looks like a boomerang and is held with one screw. A telephone latch ...well, it sorta' looks like a telephone did back when we were
growing up and it is held with two screws. I'll find some pictures for you ...
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Posts: 672 01/16/2009 20:53 |
Here you go ...
Horseshoe latch .... 
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Posts: 2284 01/16/2009 20:58 |
Thanks Dean! Do you have to loosen one of the screws on the telephone latch to remove the spool?
Bob Go Heels!!! |
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Posts: 6658 01/16/2009 21:40 Bulldog1935 |
no, it's spring loaded - here the spring on a Dingley
 
the rods are never obsolete - the marketing is.
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Posts: 491 01/16/2009 21:50 |
I'm not the one who asked the question but sure do appreciate the clear, illustrated answer.
I had no clue  what these were before these answers.
Thanks guys. Ken |
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Posts: 139 01/16/2009 22:07 |
Is this a great web site or what? |
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Posts: 674 01/16/2009 22:23 |
slw wrote: The side opposite the screw has a dimple on the underside that sits in a recess in the spool. That end of the latch is also bent down wards to keep the dimple in the hole ...which is why you so often see the arch/swing of the latch cut into the finish. That is from the dimple dragging across the face of the spool. Dean.
Last Edited By: reelsmith 01/16/2009 22:26.
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Posts: 1202 01/16/2009 22:26 |
> What holds the horseshoe latch in place?
(besides riding in the spindle groove to hold it steady) it's attached to the spool on earliest reels by a screw, later on a rivit. There's also a little bump on the underside that clicks into a tiny depression on the spool to keep it "latched". Bob |
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Posts: 36 01/16/2009 23:01 |
Ron-
Thanks for your photo of the Dingley. I always have wondered what purpose the spring had on the caged arbor. I'm still waiting on my telephone latch D to arrive to get a first hand glimpse. Great information! |
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Posts: 2292 01/17/2009 12:44 |
Thanks all! Appreciate the latch tutorial!
Now if I don't forget in two weeks, I'll no longer be ignorant of telephone and horseshoe latches! 
bobbyg Go Heels!!! |
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