| Features |
Year |
Remarks |
   
 
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1953 - 1973 |
Ribbed side plates
Mushroom nut
"4 screw" Frame (till mid 60s only)
Early drag nut - NOT overlapping side plate (till mid 1960s only)
Oil ports at all three end nuts (till early 1960s only)
Smooth, Rounded line guide body
Smooth reel foot, (without numbers on 6000- early 60s).
"Old" Logo
Large Arbor - 5000 (till late 70s)
Small Arbor - 5000A, 5000B, 6000 only (till late 70s)
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mid 60s to early 70s |
- Oil ports removed.
- New Drag Nut.
- New handle nut - no oil ports.
- "3 Screw" frame (from early 60s only)
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late 1972 to 1974 |
- later logo (Ribbed + Bevel Side plates)
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1972 - 1980 |
- Bevel Rim side plates
- Checkered foot + Checkered tension nut
- New handle nut - sharper edges with word "Oil" stamped
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1963 |
- Introduction of 5000 De Luxe (with ball
bearings)
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1965 |
- Introduction of 8000
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1968 |
- Ball bearings introduced to "standard" models as 5000C
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1969 |
- Introduction of 6000C, 9000
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1971 |
- Introduction of 10000C
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1972 |
- Introduction of 7000
- Bevelled rim side plate
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1973 |
- Left hand models - 5001C
- Introduction of 8500
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1974 |
- New logo
- Higher speed 5500C / 6500 series introduced.
- Introduction of direct drive models 5000D
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1975 |
- 8500 replaced by ABU 12 which has ratchet
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1976 |
- Introduction of 2500C
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1977 |
- Introduction of thumbar version - 5600C, 6600C
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1978 |
- Introduction of 5600C Deluxe, 5500, 6500, 5500D
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1980 -> |
- Palming side plate
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1993 -> |
- Infinite Anti Reverse
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