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Hi,



I have a couple of 302's and 402's, all have the full bail. I haven't used them, only used them as project reels so far. However, on two of them I have noticed that the bail-arm won't open fully. By this I mean that the arm opens and locks in place all ok, but it doesn't appear to be open enough to avoid fouling the line when casting. I've attached a couple of pics which hopefully illustrate what I mean. The bail springs seem fine, I've stripped and reassembled both reels completely and the same thing happens.



I know that in the US most of these reels were converted to the PUM bail arrangement, but that's quite uncommon over here in the UK. Was this the reason for the conversions? Is the bail snagging the line a design fault of these reels? It's a shame, as I'd quite like to use one of them, but I just can't see how the line would leave the spool without wrapping around the bail.



Any ideas?



Thanks,

 



Mark 


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Thanks guys. As it is it certainly won't cast correctly without the line dragging on the bail, which I can't believe was the original design. I've been bending arm and can't get it quite right so I think cutting it off short and codging together a sort of PUM arrangement is probably the way to go.

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