

ABU GARCIA AMBASSADEUR 5000 MADE IN SWEDEN SERIES.ABU GARCIA AMBASSADEUR 5000 MADE IN SWEDEN PRO.Later 46/56/66 palming reels addressed this small glitch, but not the first run like yours. If you already are aware of this kewl, but others reading the thread may not catch this, and wonder why their reel won't engage. It will not go there till you put a screwdriver in, and flip the reel into cast mode, so the pin can fit inside the crescent. Note that little crescent-shaped hole on the bottom of the brake plate. The thumb bar activation pin will not work otherwise. Oh yeah: shouting now: If and when you take the reel down for mods or fix, you need to engage the cast function before you put the tranny side on the frame. The handle would sell for 10 something, maybe more, star the same, and if the plates are not all "boat-rashed", should fetch you 30.00 the pair, or more. If you want to fish the reel, and make some coin down the road, remove the handle, star, and sideplates, and replace with scuzzy ones from other reels. The sideplates for your reel are long gone John in black, and rapidly going away in grey, and red. From the factory.įrom a warranty center, the number would have a big dremel X across it, or totally obliterated by dremel, brass showing through. So replacement later on frames would be bare.

That's because the factory branded them as they made the reels.

Very few replacement frames for a small run of reels bore the s/n.
