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<blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 4239732" data-attributes="member: 5412">A family friend used to be the night janitor when Zebco built reels in Tulsa. If one of the assemblers dropped a part, it wasn&#039;t worth shutting down the line to pick them up.She would bag up the sweepings and take them home. For many years after Zebco went overseas, she ran a little mail order business selling replacement parts. Parts were cheap, penny&#039;s basically but the shipping and handling was where she made enough money to keep it alive. She was a single mom at the time until marrying my friend that was an engineer at Conoco. She continued the business for a while, but it became more hassle than profit as hubby was making bank so she dumped them all. That was back when Zebco was making metal gears. I think they were cast probably, but metal non the less and were legit reels. There are two from the 50&#039;s in my reel rack from that era that haven&#039;t&#039; seen duty in many years, but I&#039;d bet with a little cleaning and new line they would work just fine.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dennishoddy, post: 4239732, member: 5412"] A family friend used to be the night janitor when Zebco built reels in Tulsa. If one of the assemblers dropped a part, it wasn't worth shutting down the line to pick them up. She would bag up the sweepings and take them home. For many years after Zebco went overseas, she ran a little mail order business selling replacement parts. Parts were cheap, penny's basically but the shipping and handling was where she made enough money to keep it alive. She was a single mom at the time until marrying my friend that was an engineer at Conoco. She continued the business for a while, but it became more hassle than profit as hubby was making bank so she dumped them all. That was back when Zebco was making metal gears. I think they were cast probably, but metal non the less and were legit reels. There are two from the 50's in my reel rack from that era that haven't' seen duty in many years, but I'd bet with a little cleaning and new line they would work just fine. [/QUOTE]

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