Fumble, and recovery of my Stradic ci4. Phew!

[Kerrazy]

Me, being me, decided to strip down my stradic today and give it some love.
Well I even decided to sort out the bail spring too.

Imagine my horror when I loosened the spring side bail screw and it exploded and parts went flying.

Insert high pitched girly man squeal now!

Searched fo my schematic, that was foolishly removed, when I apparently required the original box for Xmas present wrapping.

Dang... Ok Google, don't let me down baby.

Bingo, oh wait, I don't have one of those parts. Hmmm

Look through a few more schematics and that seems to be a significant piece.

Oh there it is imbedded in my dogs fur... Yikes.

Enter issue #2.

Last year we never had a furry freaking behemoth when I was cleaning reels.

We are pretty clean folks, but man he has hair every where.

Ok, all parts cleaned relocated, and time for reassembly.

Shoot, everyone shows how to clean and lube the gears, yet none for the bail.

Luckily, I stumbled on an Australian forum , that had a similar question posed and found some photos, and a couple puzzling attempts, all better.

I must say, I was really thinking I had just destined my stradic to the shelf of lonely reels. As I never send them in for repair.

One of those, get a round to its, than never happen.

God bless you baby Google!

[lape0019]

LOL,

Been there a few times. Albeit with a baitcaster and not a spinning reel. Those little springs really fly if you're not paying attention. It usually ends up with me on the floor looking for a tiny little part.

After discussing this with a few other people lately, I have taken to opening my reels within a ziplock bag. This way if a part does go flying, it can't go very far.

[Harpee61]

Ziplock!! Brilliant....if I had only known last week I would get back half an hour of my life spent under the workbench. Thank you!

[lape0019]

Ziplock!! Brilliant....if I had only known last week I would get back half an hour of my life spent under the workbench. Thank you!

Oddly enough, that is exactly how the conversation went when I was told to do it this way.

[Kerrazy]

Ziplock!! Brilliant....if I had only known last week I would get back half an hour of my life spent under the workbench. Thank you!

Oddly enough, that is exactly how the conversation went when I was told to do it this way.

Ha! Very good idea!

[ShawnD]

Those wee parts!

Dale, send it out to Shimano is you don't end up getting it figured out, no sense in letting it sit on a shelf..
Small room, on a towel, the towel keeps the parts from flying.

Fun stuff Eh?!

[TheMaverick]

After discussing this with a few other people lately, I have taken to opening my reels within a ziplock bag. This way if a part does go flying, it can't go very far.

Whoever gave you that tip is one smart dude!

Was cleaning one reel (without the Ziplock, not so smart there ) sitting down at the table.
The clutch spring is one that will fly a good distance, it landed in the sink, luckily, it didn't go down the drain.

[Kerrazy]

Those wee parts!

Dale, send it out to Shimano is you don't end up getting it figured out, no sense in letting it sit on a shelf..
Small room, on a towel, the towel keeps the parts from flying.

Fun stuff Eh?!

Got it all sorted out!

And Mav, that's some serious distance!!! Lol