Question for Bantam on washer/shims

[brownhl]

I completely understand the reason why reels of the same type will vary in the placement of washers/shims for tolerance differences and went nuts years ago trying to figure out why those shown on the schematic are not in the reel until you explained it long ago. Curiosity is killing me on how an assembler determines what is, or is not needed in washers/shims. Bantam, have you ever had the opportunity to observe the assembly procedure and can comment on this skill?

[Bantam1]

The shims are used to adjust both feel and reduce noise. Every reel is a little different so shims are used to adjust it. There are times where shims are used to adjust tolerances that are known. During the life cycle of the reel, tooling can wear and adjustments might need to happen. I haven't seen it happen in recent times, but over the years we have seen adjustments like this happen.

With spinning reels we adjust as necessary. Most of the time when we replace gears in our repair department have to adjust the shims. This is due to tolerances in the parts. We are talking small adjustments like .002-.003". The new reels are now adjusted differently and we have not really seen much variance. Hopefully this is a sign of things to come with tighter control over the tolerances on the parts.

[brownhl]

Than you. I was wondering is we had calibrated eyeballs at work here.

[Bantam1]

Only my eyes are calibrated