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Hello Glen,

Back!

It's good to see you! Wallace

Hey Don, Great pictures. FYI you don't need to make your pics so small

Regards, Wallace

Reply to Wallace My question to the Admin (Wallace) would be I and I think many others would be happy to contribute to the upkeep of the site, and if this was a yearly fee of say $15-$20 this would be reasonable, and I for one would be happy with that, after the short time I have surfed the site an...

Hey Don, Mine too my friend

Hello?

or is case closed?

Hey LindWinder, Thank you for trying to help. I've read what you sent and a lot more and the bottom line is; it will not show in the window unless you're willing to do code which is dangerous plus I'm not qualified. If you do make a coding change, that pretty much rules out any phpBB help cause it c...

Sorry mates, this is a test post. I'm trying to get PDF files to post as attachments. From what I see, they will upload, but won't show the attachments. I think we will have to download them to our computers to see what's there. Is this going to be a problem?

ENERGY STAR.pdf: (28.97 KiB) Downloaded 364 times

Hello Allan, :text-welcomewave: :text-welcomeconfetti: :text-welcomewave: to the Mitchell Reel Museum / Forum! Before I can answer your questions I would need to know more about why you are doing the restoration (term used loosely). Are you wanting to learn how to do a full blown restoration or just...

Dear Mitchell Mates, I've got several other things to help understand why I'm so convinced of Mitchell development through the early years, mainly 1939 to 1948. This one goes into detail in my book, so trying to keep it short: Lawrence Harvey, Jr 1945 Mitchell 2nd Version.JPG There are many document...

Hello Mitchell73, :text-welcomeconfetti: to our forum! I am so sorry you've had a negative experience just starting off collecting Mitchell reels. Without knowing a lot more about the reel you purchased, I'd have to say it's not in your best interest to restore a Mitchell 300 rather common reel. You...

Hey Bill, I have 12 pages of ads for the Mitchell 300A reel, too many to post here. These are scanned originals from years 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984 and the last one is from 1987. Is there any that you're looking for or would you like all of them? I can email these to you if you want, or post up ...

Great job Chris!

Best Regards, Wallace

Hey Simone, Looks like we posted at the same time my friend. Thank you for your kind words.

Best Wishes, Wallace

The picture below is of the Mitchell reel Richard Walker used as Barrie mentioned, and others have mistakenly said this was a 2nd version Mitchell reel. Not True Grasshopper :twocents-02cents: See:Richard Walker Presentation Reel.jpg "Many of the largest and most talked about coarse fishing co...

Hello Simone,

Wow, what a beautiful Mitchell Reel! The rods that go with this M34 are impressive. There are two high end Mitchell collectors who I hope will share their knowledge of this reel. Both are massive collectors of round body reels. I do hope they join in.

Regards, Wallace

Yes I do, see Private Message... Wallace

What the heck???

Hey Schrack, Congratulations on your combo. Have a great and happy 4th of July.

Best Regards, Wallace

Bailarm, I really don't have time to try to figure out your point. The only thing I ask from you is the evidence you claim to have; "Evidence Richard Walker acquires2nd version reel" as that would answer a lot of questions. In the meantime, here's another article from Barrie Welham I Shoul...

First of all, read About Barrie Welham under About Us. Then read this, a letter to me from Barrie: Wallace Herewith a first stab at my involvement with the Mitchell reel. You can re-write it in your own style so I have purposely not written in the 1st person Over to you Let me know what you th...

Hey Schrack, I would have never even tried what you did to fix it. Remembering my dad working on fishing reels back in the 1950s, like you he would never give up. I would have told the owner it would be cheaper to find one for sale in eBay. But that's just me being me... Kind Regards, Wallace :text-...

Chris, I'm looking for things on my computer to share with you but in the meantime, I'll share this for your records: SEE: 1955 Mitchell 300 with 55' Tag.JPG Thanks Ted, I'll do my best but as you know, I have several irons in the first so my productivity is slowed down quite a bit. But what's the r...

Hey Chris,

I've been waiting on someone else to ask, but I guess I'll be the one...

What is Fishing a Swim?

Kind Regards,
Wallace

Does anyone want me to continue?

Chris, When I first started studying all things Mitchell, it was and still is my intent to, "preserve the History and Integrity of Mitchell Reels and the company who started it all" and if I wasn't 95% positive of what I claim to be the truth, I would quit. It does bother me to know there ...

Don, There's 2 things you can do. The first is to spread the bail spring making it taller. The other thing you can do if you have one, is to replace the bail spring with a 307 bail spring. I've had this problem in the past and have done both of my suggestions, and they work. Good Luck, Wallace See: ...

Bailarm, Now I understand why you think you know, or more like that you believe. You've made the same rookie mistake I made when I first started studying "timelines" in 2000 based on advertisements, patents, publications, and much more. This cannot happen and I urge you to redo your study....

Hey Dan,

That's very interesting history. Thanks, Wallace

Hello Mates, I have many pictures of fishing trips but this one is special to me. That's my son in the purple windbreaker. This is one of the last fishing trips we had together. We loved to fish this Lake Murray in Columbia, South Carolina. They stocked this lake every year with Stripers. FISHING.JP...

Found this:

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Okay, give me a day or two. It's not easy to add forums but I will do it.

I hope this makes everyone happy

I think it was about four years ago you offered to let us all know the evidence you had for 'pre war production' and I hope one day you will indeed offer it up. I know you are familiar with a certain Mdm. Florence Pourier and I'm sure you know she co-wrote a book about Arve valley fishing reel prod...

WARNING! DON'T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU READ!! Bailarm, I now know who you're talking about. One man who has ran off more collectors that anyone else ever. His rhetoric has gotten him banned from every forum that I know of, including the one I had formally. He's a charlatan who has taken my work, copi...

I agree but we don't need too many categories so what about Calling it simply "Show & Tell All Things Mitchell" and under this have subcategories with Sandman's recommendations? What do you think? Cheers, Wallace

I was first taught to fish with a bait-caster as a young child. I remember my dad would get so upset when I would get the line so tangled that sometimes he would have to cut the line. My dad gave me my first reel and I loved that reel so much, I would sleep with it. I did the same with my baseball g...

Hey Don, Now you see what I go through several times a day, making decisions on the site! It ain't easy

Test Post:

I could put a copy of it on here...it's been seen in the UK for years now....but I fear the quotations and other proofs would only be understood if you were familiar with British angling publications. However, many of the proofs are US in origin and simpler to follow. Your condescending statements ...

Yes Don, that is my intent.

Would you please come up with suitable heading that everyone would know that it's for images of catches, reels, collections, etc. Mitchell, Where and Why just doesn't make sense.

Thanks, Wallace

Hello Mate,

Thank you so much for your kind words. Sometimes I wonder if anyone appreciates all the work that I put into this and other articles. You lift my spirits back up so I can keep going.

Kindest Regards,
Wallace

Hello Mates, After 20 years of studying all things Mitchell, you might say I've seen it all. I have studied every super-rare reel down to the most common Mitchell 300 reel. There's one that I have a special bond with, that's the Mitchell 300 1st version reel. I have studied a dozen or so, but only 4...

Thanks Everyone! It really makes me want to keep building the MRM, day and night, when I see old friends come back, join and are appreciative over all that's been done so far. Kindest Regards, Wallace

Hey Schrack, Don't add any shims as this could be the problem already and adding would only make it worse. It's better to have too much play in the head than not enough. Regards, Wallace

Perhaps they weren't confident they would convert the whole planet to left hand wind.....but they pretty much did! Hey Bailarm, As much study as I've done on all things Mitchell, I never found out or even just heard of a reasonable explanation as to why they picked the RH (left hand wind) to make f...

Thanks Ted!

Dear Mates, I have updated and posted the Mitchell First Version Study and you can see it at

https://mitchellreelmuseum.com/first-ve ... eel-study/ and give me any questions you may have. Regards, Wallace

Hello Mates,

I have just completed the full story on the history of Mitchell and it's live on this site. See https://mitchellreelmuseum.com/mitchell ... l-history/ and tell me what you think.

Regards, Wallace

Hey Schrack, First off, I moved your post to Mitchell Reel Service Talk. This forum is for any service or repair issues. The one time I've seen this is on reels with ball bearings that are worn out. The other is when the reel has new gears with the wrong matching old gears. In other words, if you in...

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