Well I am currently working on a switch rod built on a modern glass lamiglas 9' 9wt blank that I have now found all the vintage parts to build. This rod is being built with some creative influence from mark (yuniha). Well like most of my rods I never think which reel do I already have that will work. Well I have been looking for a reel for this and hopefully made a good score with this landex.
landex

Could someone, roof, give me some info on this reel and possibly when it was made. I have been looking at the landex posts and see the different line gaurds and porting and have no clue what I may have purchased.

thanks,
Russell

you can sometimes find a diamond hidden among the coal

I believe they ended this reel about '62 when Topp Tackle was formed.

They may have continued into '65, but they are definately gone by '68 with the first Shakespeare/Allcocks/Lee/Young catalog.
RHW only

this is a 3-1/2" narrow




close-ups of the AR ratchet




and 3-1/2" MW, which will fit a WF9 with about 80-100 yds backing

if you keep the ratchet lubed with light oil, it works flawlessly, and you can hold the handle while a fish is running.

great match for the rod!

The photograph stumbled my computer bad loading, but it was worth waiting for. Nice, nice, and very special, Riffling Hitch. Good thing you found that spring, but don't count on it the next time. Perhaps you haven't yet learned the real reason to have spare parts, but you should know this for future tinkering. They are never actually used as spares. If you drop or "spring" a small part, it is luck only to find it, which rarely happens. Instead, get out your spare part and drop or "spring" it exactly the same way. Wherever that one goes, you are sure to have a good indicator of where the first one is. People also do this by removing an identical part from the reel (another spring, say, or another frame screw). Drop that one, and it will be right near the first one. Sometimes you have to do it with another spare or surrogate spare removed from the reel. This is why some Pfluegers don't have that many frame screws left anymore, but the other ones are all in the same place. One guy lost a second rod in a river after trying this same theory, but probably he didn't toss number two in exactly where the first one went in by accident.

I can make those springs from piano wire.

Russ, what kind of reel seat is that? looks pretty cool!

Besides a great reel, here we have all-time great comments about finding parts from Riffling Hitch and Jgestar. Actually, I'm hip to the magnet thing. I have a magnet on a small wand for that purpose. However, I can't find the magnet on the shelf where I think I put it. I am guessing it fell off the shelf. Therefore, I plan to try a streamlined version of the Riffling Hitch method, viz, shake everything else off that shelf and the magnet will be where the other stuff is not. Correct? If this works well, I will try the same thing to find a lost valve cover bolt down in the undershrouds of my car. Dropping a second one in there did not work, and I can't use a magnet around the electronic control modules in the engine compartment. So if RH's method works and I dump a whole tray of not-a-bolt stuff in there, I won't have to remove the engine to find the valve cover bolt. Or possibly a spare will turn up when I dump the shelf where the magnet once was.