best oil to use on a centrepin

[Paul Boote]

Spindle:

To be honest, when you're fishing and your reel gets gunked up with grit, sand and groundbait it really isn't worth worrying too much about what oil you've used!

Know the feeling - a Welsh pal's comment to me after a week's float, flake and mash feed mullet-fishing last summer: "Er, Paul, is there, er, like er, metal - er, like a reel - in there...?"

[Andy Macfarlane]

Spindle:

Don't have much to add on what's already been said except to say that I also use high quality clock oil. To be honest, when you're fishing and your reel gets gunked up with grit, sand and groundbait it really isn't worth worrying too much about what oil you've used!

GT85 isn't sticky so it doesn't attract all the crap that normal oils and lubricants do. It also acts as a superb water repellent and metal polish.

[kendo]

if it works on prams,brilliant

[Alan Stubbs]

kendo:

if it works on prams,brilliant

I'm surprised you haven't recommended Johnson's Baby Oil!

[Guest tigger]

I reckon i`m gonna get me some GT85 on my next outing near to a Halfords.Just hope there`s some left on the shelves after this thread.

Tigger.

[kendo]

me too

[chavender]

so it's just me then that uses 15/40 engine oil

i've still got nearly a gallon left after 3 years

use, as a drop goes a long way.

[ColinW]

I use engine oil on my multipliers for sea fishing but I wouldn't use it on my centre pin. The whole point of using it on the multipliers is to slow the spools down, I want the pin to spin as freely as possible so I use 3 in 1 because it's much thinner.

[ayjay]

chavender:

so it's just me then that uses 15/40 engine oil

No, one of my old Grice and Youngs which I use for legering has a slight wobble, but a drop of engine oil takes most of it out.

[Andy Macfarlane]

ColinW:

I use engine oil on my multipliers for sea fishing but I wouldn't use it on my centre pin. The whole point of using it on the multipliers is to slow the spools down

That's what the tension nut is for.

Besides, what's wrong with your thumb?