Garcia Mitchell 406 -- Main Bearing Service -- Young Martin's Reels

In this video I show how to service the main bearing on a Garcia Mitchell 406 spinning reel. The rest of the reel servicing can be seen in the Garcia Mitchell 306 service video.
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Young Martin’s Reels was created to honor my dad Martin B. Stivers of Louisville KY. He was an avid fisherman and repaired thousands of fishing reels in his lifetime. I spent numerous hours watching him do so, but I have forgotten most of what he taught me. Now that he is gone, and I find myself in need of reel repair, so I am learning how it is done and trying my best to pass it on.
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Rick Martin Stivers

[@kennethboydsr3966]

Wow this was great information! My Pinyan assembly was stuck. I put penetrate Nolan everything out and I just could not get it but so I finally took a piece of wood and a hammer and tried to drive it out and what I did I would’ve barons went flying everywhere and steer would but halfway out and year did Mr. year up I don’t know is there anyway you could fix it if I sent it in it was real it’s good dry but I really like to know. Thanks so much this is Kenneth Boyd.

[@adrianbattistessa4742]

Mui.lindo.video.exelente.saludos.desde.argentina.👏🏻👏🏻🎣🇦🇷

[@christopherjenkins2373]

Rick, you can see that given the limits of my visual impairment this is much more difficult for me. I guess I’d still use my grease technique for doing this. You only need just enough grease to stick those bearings into place and then go from there. You also have far steadier hands than I do. - Chris

[@youngmartinsreels5314]

I can understand why this would be so difficult for you. I couldn’t do it without my glasses on. I can remember thinking while I was putting these bearings in that I was glad I wasn’t a brain surgeon with the way my hands were shaking. I had to shoot this video 4 times before I managed to keep the pinion in the camera frame. Each time I thought I had done it but when I went to edit the video, I found it moved out of the picture.

[@neilklein2037]

From what I could see it seemed like you were one ball short in the ring.

[@warpedweirdo]

@@neilklein2037 I don't know whether you're right or wrong but, in my experience, bearing assemblies that have no ball cage usually have a gap between the first and last balls when all the balls are crammed together end-to-end. Looks like a ball is missing, but isn't. Hubs of bicycle rims and old roller skates come most readily to mind as examples of this.

[@youngmartinsreels5314]

Neil, the first time I took it apart I thought the same thing. However, when I looked closely it didn’t appear the gap was big enough for one more to go in without binding. Am I positive it isn’t missing one? No, but I’m pretty sure the gap is intentional to prevent the ball bearings from jamming up against each other. It works fine the way it is so I wasn’t overly concerned. Besides, I didn’t have a spare ball laying around to try fitting in there.

[@ddselvig]

I wonder if slightly magnetizing those steel balls would make it easier to put them back into the race.

[@youngmartinsreels5314]

Dan, the pinion, the sleeve and the ring are all brass so the balls would not stick to it. Magnetized, they would only stick to the hemostat. I think that might make it harder.

[@seymourwrasse3321]

you can literally lose your marbles dealing with this bearing