I found this reel in a pawn shop in eastern Oklahoma hooked to a 9' 5wt Fenwick HMG that had no end plug in the reel seat and two mismatched guides put on with sewing thread. The reel was frozen nearly solid with gunk, held a level line with no backing onto which was tied a long hunk of monofiliment, and at the end of that was about a size 2.0 hook shoved through a big rubber spider with a couple of legs missing. They wanted $15 for the rig; I think I got it for $10. My repair guy replaced the guides, I made an end plug for it, and for a long time it was one of my fanorite rods. I cleaned the reel up but never used it, but I figure any reel that lived through that deserves 4-5 bucks spent on it to see if I can keep it operating .