Mega Cheap Centrepin

[Elton]

Just how big was the box of these that they found?!!!

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/261044097718

[Chris Plumb]

563 sold! That would be a rather big box!

 

C.

[Sportsman]

I fished with one of those well over 50 years ago.

Horrible thing.

[Mat Hillman]

My Nan used to live in March, near where that shop is, I remember seeing them or some very very similar reels when I last went in there over 25 years ago!

 

Mat

[wotnobivvy]

It's amazing what you can sell on an auction site. I wonder how many are left ??

[Elton]

Rumour is that chesters was thinking of upgrading to one of these

[chesters1]

Bit modern for me ,i cant understand how he has sold so many anyone ever having come across them would avoid them like the plague

The first reel i had was probably worse than that one ,fairly lage steel thing with a permanent clicker ,drove everyone mad even on the other side of the pond and the spool was riveted on so it couldnt be taken off to remove the clicker.

Luckily i was given a more up market ali one that you could turn sideways to cast and it made life easier ,still got it in the loft.

I kept the noisy one as backup (i only had one rod ) and when my uncle gave me his old intrepid and i silenced the dammed noisy one permenantly with a 2ib hammer

Edited April 7, 2013 by chesters1

[Chris Plumb]

2 more sold since this thread started!!!

 

Looking for dimensions of these things and it only says they are 70mm deep. If they came in say a 75mm cubed box then the number sold would fit into a crate a metre squared an 25cm deep (if my math is correct! )

 

 

C.

[Andy_1984]

at £2.50 might be alright for something to sit on a shelf

[ayjay]

at £2.50 might be alright for something to sit on a shelf

I've just put £2.50 on a shelf - it looks better than one of those pins, and I've still got £2.50.