Record/ABU Reel Models

       

500 Series

Model name                           ABU 501

Maker/designer                      Gote Borgstom and Enar Frode (patent 1961)

Production dates                    1987/1982 (last model of the series)

Features                                 Direct drive, turn handle backward when fish wants to run, Chenille-edged spool rim, contoured lip on Stainless steel winding cup, single pick-up pin, push button line release operated by one finger, oscillating spool to cross lay line to avoid digging in

Known Enthusiast Writers         James Partridge and Martin Stone from UK and Marco Malavasi from Italy

Images                 My French sold 1980 ABU 501

Beautifully mounted 501

Catalog

Tight Lines 1978

Tight Lines 1980/81

Tight Lines 1982  features the Back-winding drag ABU501

 

Schematic

Manual

This 501 was the last and perhaps finest of a great series of metal 500 series half-encapsulated spinning reels which made continual minor advances over 20 years.

More general material covering the whole 500 series is here.

They were followed by the less accepted plastic models 601 and 601M and  602 while the 501 and 506 were still in production in 1983. The two remaining metal models 501 and 506,  were gone from the Tight Lines catalog by 1984.

Please be patient and enjoy as they appear and do contribute!

 

If you have any others not listed above, that are unneeded  or doubles in your collection and are available for a reasonable fee, I would be very pleased to hear from you.