The Super-Sized and Zoom-Able pictures are of the reel which show it quite well.
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H as a good freespool mode with dual manual backlash controls and air-brakes.
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As posted, giving it a good cleaning and relubing with quality oil and grease should give you a great old reel to use. Take care with the small springs as they can be stretched out easily.īe sure and clean under the yoke that the button is made on, and the 2 flat pieces on either side of them, and grease under them lightly. That was they reel to have in it's day and I still have 4 and they are still going strong. If you don't know, the red 50B have a low gear ratio, 3.75:1 if I remember correctly. Blitz spinnerbaits that were designed for those ratios back around '70. It should work well for any bait you want to work slow, as slow rolling a SB down deep. Just remember it isn't going to get a fish away from cover with that low ratio like a 7:1 with a similar size spool. Once it's cleaned and lubed I think you will be pleasantly surprised at the smoothness of a reel with bronze bushings instead of ball bearings. They may make bearings now to replace the bushings but I've never seen the need on mine so I don't know if that can be done. I'm sure you will enjoy using it and knowing it's what a lot of us old timers used in the early days of competitive bass fishing.These are bottles of Liquid Bearings. The legendary oil that everyone has loved that has ever purchased it(please read our 100% positive feedback)These. bottles with the characteristic needle dispenser tip. This is the synthetic lubricant that consistently outperforms all others currently available. It attains DOUBLE the performance in the metal-to-metal grind tests of other fishing reel oils. And has incredible low and high-temperature characteristics, which is absolutely necessary for proper reel lubrication but completely lacking in petroleum-based oils. Don't use them on your Ambassadeur reels any longer! Actual oils leave sticky deposits when the short-chain molecule components evaporate over time. synthetics: Petroleum-based oils lack both the lubrication performance and oxidation stability of synthetics. Real oil is made up of a mixture of long and short chains of carbon and hydrogen atoms. This leaves a sticky residue which can actually“gum up” the device it was intending to lubricate.Īnd under certain conditions the short-chain molecules evaporate, and the unstable molecules oxidize and break down. Conventional oils also contain varying amounts of impurities, such as sulfur, waxes, and unstable hydrocarbons which are left behind as residue deposits. Synthetic oils are made using a process that re-arranges the structure so all the molecules are uniform in size, shape, and weight, an ideal phenomenon which does not occur in nature. While petroleum-based oils that are extracted from the ground must then be refined to attempt to minimize their shortcomings, synthetics are custom-designed to produce the ultimate lubricant. With inherent performance characteristics vastly superior to any petro-oil. Using synthetics after using petro-oils: It is perfectly safe to begin using Liquid Bearings on all your reels immediately.