PENN Fierce 3: Cleaning a Spinning Reel 

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Thanks for stopping by and glad it helped. A lot has happened in the past year, but about to drop another video soon. Need to get back on track.

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Honestly, you could do the same with this reel haha. I've never cleaned a couple of my older Penn reels. Not a bad strategy.

Damn you must have hella play in the bearings and shafts, that would drive me crazy. Once you feel a brand new mid tier/high tier reel like penn battle 3 or spinfisher it just makes fishing shitty on loose bearings without that "thightness" and precision to it. at least for me!

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I could see that for sure. Good point.

They have been great reels for me, I think it would serve you well. Thanks for stopping by.

@@CastFromTheHip pulling the trigger then...I appreciate the response.

Use grease on the pinion gear, main gear, and the oscillation gear. Use oil on the bearings, main shaft, and where the bail hinges. If you fish a lot of saltwater then you can put grease in other places and where the bail hinges if you believe it needs it.

Use grease where sand and dirt cant get to it, drag system and gear, grime sticks to grease, grime doesn’t stick to oil and oil does not allow salt and water to get to the reel as much

Hope it breaks in for you, if not it may be worth contacting Penn service.

@@CastFromTheHip it feels good now, I put a lil wd40 which Ik isn’t the best to use but I used it and spun it a bunch and smoothed out

I use degreasers on vintage reels where the old grease has solidified and bound the components. The method you describe is certainly more thorough than what I use on my working reels. I typically oil my bearings and grease my gears. So when I clean, I just wipe down the bearings and re-apply oil. They never really interface with grease. I wipe and brush the old/dirty grease off the gears and then apply fresh grease. This method has always worked for me. I have some old Penn Fierces that never get cleaned, they just get WD-40 once in a while and they keep chugging. I abuse them out of curiosity and I'm pleasantly surprised. To me the most important thing is just preventing corrosion. I guess it all depends on the situation and the quality of the reel. Cheap reels get WD-40 and I move on with my life, the expensive reels get whatever they need to keep operating smoothly. Thanks for stopping by!

@@CastFromTheHip That is fair enough good job then cheers 😊👍

mine is the same i think it is due to oiling the gears and not greasing them so i feel the gears moving, the gears where the handle connects too

Mine too, only used about 20x over 8 months. Gonna take it apart and try to fix it. Having since purchased more expensive reels makes the Fierce seem even more inferior

I just purchased a Pursuit 4 and I have to say I'm impressed.

Thanks for stopping by. I've only owned one pursuit and a Crevalle jack shredded the drag system rendering the reel virtually useless. I have never had a Fierce 1,2 or 3 fail on me yet. And I don't take the best care of my fierce reels...they keep trucking on. That's just my experience.

I have soft beautiful hands…can’t let them get ruined by oil and grease. All seriousness, I take the gloves off to operate my expensive camera. Not getting oil and grease all over it. Thanks for stopping by.