Does anyone know how to adjust the clicker on avet 6.0 reel? Can’t hardl hear on some others disengage by themselves.
Or where is a good place local I could take them to?
Thanks
Rick’s Reel Service, http://www.ricksreelservice.com/, if you want to send them off. Heard reel (pun intended) good things about them. Locally, maybe Barron’s on Harden St. or maybe Chip (Murrymaker). I don’t want to speak for Chip, but you could PM him and ask or he may chime in here.
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If you ave to ship it, definitely Rick’s. H is a 1st class guy and does great work at fair prices.
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Rick is excellent, and also, Avet will have a reel back to you in under 3 weeks with full service and any needed bearings replaced for the flat fee of $44 for your LX.
http://www.avetreels.net/AVET_MAINTENENCE_PROGRAM.html
You pay $44 plus costs to get the reel to them. They ship the reel back after serviced.
It’s cheaper than the cost of the parts to have them do this on reels that haven’t been kept up and could use all new bearings especially, and all you end up with out of pocket is basically shipping cost to get reels to them in CA. USPS flat rate priority mail is cheap…
I have sent them a box with 4 reels in it before and gotten them all back with old replaced bearings in a zip loc about 2 weeks later. Adding up the cost of the bearings in some of the bigger reels or raptors makes their flat fee a bargain.
Clickers are easy to get to on Avets. Unscrew the frame screws on your right side plate and pull the right side and spool of the reel out of the left side and main body of the frame. That exposes the clicker, which is basically a “button,” a tongue, retainer clip and spring. 3-4 parts. If cleaning it and lubing doesn’t fix the problem, parts can be ordered from Avet by telling them what you need off the schematic.
http://www.avetreels.net/SCHEMATICS___PARTS_LISTS.html
The only other part to the LX clicker is the plastic plate attached to the spool the tongue clicks against, and I have never seen one of them be any issue. Clickers freezing up from not being oiled is pretty common though.
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Phin, the issue is you can’t hardly hear 4 of them. And from time to time they disengage by themselves causing a birds nest. Any ideas?
Clicker sound was a problem with the early Avets. No solution for mine and I tried. However when the reel malfunctioned, Haddrells fixed it. Still can’t hear the clicker, but reel works great.
Marsha
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Originally posted by tjacksonPhin, the issue is you can’t hardly hear 4 of them. And from time to time they disengage by themselves causing a birds nest. Any ideas?
Hard to say without seeing what they look like inside.
The LX is almost identical to this SX I did a pictorial of when I serviced it.
http://old.charlestonfishing.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=53274
I’d first see what happens just from oiling the clickers from the outside. A drop here after every use, after you’ve rinsed and dried them off is good.
If that doesn’t free them up where they operate right, then there must be some crud on the inside that needs cleaning. I have never had to replace any of the clicker parts on the small Avets. On Penn senators, it used to be a common thing to have to do almost every time they were serviced until I started coating the parts with corrosion X.
Anyway, to get to the clicker, it is literally 3 screws.
The 3 frame screws.
Pull the whole right side of the reel and spool out of the left side and frame. The spool will come away from the right side assembly if you pull them apart, but they’ll normally stay together since the spool shaft and pinion gear are stuck down in the main gear and pinion bearing within a pretty close tolerance. The black sprocket looking thing attached to the left side of the spool is what the clicker tongue contacts to make the sound. If it’s worn out, then it’ll need replacement, but it does not seem to me that’s what you have going on.
then you’ll see the clicker tongue and springs there inside the left
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Originally posted by marshgrassClicker sound was a problem with the early Avets. No solution for mine and I tried. However when the reel malfunctioned, Haddrells fixed it. Still can’t hear the clicker, but reel works great.
Marsha
22 Sea Hunt
Those you had are probably the ones with auto disengaging clickers- the EXW4/02’s.
They have pretty unique clicker designs while the reels tjackson has are more traditionally designed systems. I believe when he says a 6.0 reel, he’s talking about an LX or JX 6.0, which look like the little SX5.0 in my pics.
What I did with my old 4/02’s is break off the little bar on the clicker mechanism that made them auto disengage when you moved the reel handle forward. I took out the set screw on the little knobs and put in a 3/8" machine screw so it was just like a normal clicker knob that you cut on and off. They still had a tendancy to wear out quickly. Probably why they did away with that model.
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