SERVICING — ABU Ambassadeur 4500C
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2016 12:04 pm
A wise author once said: Fashion comes and goes, but a good style will stand the test of time.
ABU Ambassadeurs have worn this same face for decades. Yet each time I look at it, I never feel that it is out of style!
Here is another reel from my friend’s collection of Ambassadeurs that he passed me to service. Even though this is a relatively modern incarnation of the venerable ABU Record Ambassadeur Casting reel, it has retained most of Ambassadeur’s simple design so servicing this immediately after doing the Shimano Antares DC7 was a breeze by contrast.
The reel had only 1 second of freespool when I received the reel. After cleaning up the ball bearings, here's what I got from the spin time of the ball bearing:
https://youtu.be/-Pgj2j0Yem0
This go to show that ABU once used very high grade ball bearings!
I’ll start this step by step guide with a few shots of the reel before I cracked it open...
The full step by step guide is in the link below:
https://gaspinggurami.wordpress.com/201 ... eur-4500c/
Hope that helps,
LL
ABU Ambassadeurs have worn this same face for decades. Yet each time I look at it, I never feel that it is out of style!
Here is another reel from my friend’s collection of Ambassadeurs that he passed me to service. Even though this is a relatively modern incarnation of the venerable ABU Record Ambassadeur Casting reel, it has retained most of Ambassadeur’s simple design so servicing this immediately after doing the Shimano Antares DC7 was a breeze by contrast.
The reel had only 1 second of freespool when I received the reel. After cleaning up the ball bearings, here's what I got from the spin time of the ball bearing:
https://youtu.be/-Pgj2j0Yem0
This go to show that ABU once used very high grade ball bearings!
I’ll start this step by step guide with a few shots of the reel before I cracked it open...
The full step by step guide is in the link below:
https://gaspinggurami.wordpress.com/201 ... eur-4500c/
Hope that helps,
LL