This winter I am going to try and oil and grease my own reels. Im going to start with my quantum accurist. My question is what parts do I oil and what parts do I grease. If I dont like the way the first reel goes then I will just send them off to the reel mechanic.

Grease on the gears, oil for everything else. I now use Reel Butter oil and grease. I like it best after trying several others.

If you want to try reel butter, you'll need to get all of the hot sauce lubes removed, and that's a pain in the membrane.

Here's two tips. Have the schematic with you before you start, or you'll likely end up with a problem if you haven't done this reel before.

And, leave the IAR bearing alone. IF IT AIN'T BROKE, DON'T FIX IT. If you decide to clean and relube this part, you may as well go to Reel Mechanic's website, print out the form, fill it out and ship the reel off to him.

Good luck,

GK

Some years ago I tore a reel or two all the way down and remember sending one back in pieces when I couldn't get it back together. Now I pull the bearings and clean them, put a drop (absolutely no more than 2) of oil in the bearings and grease the gears. Although I haven't needed to as yet anything beyond this basic oil and lube would go to Reelmechanic.

If you want to try reel butter, you'll need to get all of the hot sauce removed,

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This winter I am going to try and oil and grease my own reels. Im going to start with my quantum accurist. My question is what parts do I oil and what parts do I grease. If I dont like the way the first reel goes then I will just send them off to the reel mechanic.

If you are breaking the reel down to the set plate, make sure you have the schematic in front of you. Greasing the gears and oiling the bearings, isn't the thing I would be wondering or worrying about, it would be what do I do when I lose the bearing retainers, or strip out or lose the side plate screws.....

Grease on the pinion and main drive gears only. The nylon gears don't need it. Then one drop of quality oil on the levelwind worm gear, and all bearings. That's it...