Cranky but lose

A fishing buddy recently got himself a good deal for a seasoned Shimano Twinpower SW6000, good for jigging around Pulau Jarak. The deal comes with a brand new crank handle as the old handle suffered a weird injury of a lose crank/knob shaft (blue arrow). It's a rare kind of damage but will render further serious damages if left unchanged given the notorious fish fights we get at Pulau Jarak.

With the lose shaft, the entire shaft spins freely, which it shouldn't. This means that when you crank with load, you are generating massive amount of torque between the hardened stainless steel shaft against the aluminum arm. It's practically like drilling and prying through the hole, round and round.

This also means removing the screw that holds the knob and bearings in place a bit tricky as the screw's usually factory installed with a dab of thread locker (blue, medium strength). It had to degrease and clean off the back of the shaft (blue arrow). Upon drying, just dab super-glue sparingly between the stainless steel shaft and the aluminum arm, leave it out a bit to set. The screw comes off without much hassle once the super-glue sets in.

Cranky but lose around the blue arrow. Reddy tighty on the pin screw pointed out by the red arrow.

While the shaft that connects the arm to the reel body was a straight forward swap. It needed a coat of thread locker (red, heavy strength) on the pin screw (red arrow) thread and screwed in tight.

All the reel needs now is to hook some big bullies to be happy cranky & tighty again.