Afgan hello again, Thanks for the information.Using a right hand thread for the drum locking screw is one of the classic errors made with these foreigners'
i.e. reels made in a factory surreptitiously when the machinist should have be making bits for aeroplanes or motor cars or whatever.It was probably produced in
an enterprise which wasn't sufficiently advanced technologically speaking to keep a stock of LH threaded taps in the stores and requesting one would have
required some explaining. The alternative is that it was produced by someone in his home workshop who didn't either consider the aquisition of a LH tap was
justified - or was unfamiliar with the need for it. It is also possible that he knew little or nothing about fishing reels and simply made it for a friend.
this is not criticism of his talents - but a deduction from the evidence ( which can be wrong of course). The reason for saying this is that if he was an
angler he would be presumably conversant with many reels - even if he had never owned them or used them. If this is right then he would have known that the way
to secure the drum against unwinding the retaining screw would have been to use a drop latch. This would have been simpler to produce on both the face of the
drum and on the spindle.I can only speak for this country when I say that the 1950s date would have been a little early for it to have been made. At that time
this country was still recovering from the effects of the war, all work in the factories over here was subject to rigid time and motion studies and if you
wanted to earn your bonus you simply didn't have time to spare for making other artifacts - there was no spare time. This fact alone suggest it was not
made over here during that period - but as I said I cannot speak for working conditions in your country. Add to this the difficulty in obtaining the materials
from which the reel is made and you can understand why I would push the date of manufacture forward to nearer the 1970s. Setting all that aside you would need
to consider the circumstances which obtained in your country at the time to see whether you could either agree or disagree with what I have said here.Another
factor which would impact on it being made during the 1950s would be the virtual non existence of small lathes in back garden sheds or workshops. There are of
course many of these around today but they are a relatively recent phenomenon - again the situation in your country may well be different. Notwithstanding
anything written here, the reel has been made by a competent machinist and justifiably deserves the praise which recognition of that fact confers upon it. It
could have been produced even under some of the difficulties outlined here and it will always serve as a reminder of the ingenuity of of our fellow man in not
allowing any abundance of problems which he may have had to face - to defeat him.
Floodtide.
Floodtide.
