reel maintenance question

[Siddo]

Hi

was stripping down a twinpower yesterday and giving it a clean.

Most of it went into shellite as thats what i use to clean things generally.

When i was putting it all back together i noticed that the part shown in the attached picture - its the support for the spool shaft (if someone can enlighten me as to what its called that would be appreciated) looked as though it was disintergrating. No im not sure if shellite would have done this or not. Thoughts?

I have stripped down and done this with every stradic Ci4 i have many times and never noticed/had an issue. Also wondering maybe its down to age?

Anyway i think its a call to shimano and order another part. Painful because its probably a $3 part and the shipping is 5-7. anywyas.

cheers
ryan

[nagz]

I've cleaned this part in a million different reels with all different solvents and have never seen anything like you mention

I'd bite the bullet and replace, and i'd buy 2 or 3 more and experiment a little bit to see if its a one off

[Siddo]

cool thanks for that nagz.

yeah might get a couple and stick one overnight in shellite.

cheers