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Serviced my fathom 15 and took some pics to help you guys if you want to service yours in the future. Hope it helps. Here goes........
The reel was brand new, these are the products I use in it.
Start by removing the 3 screws on the left hand side plate.
Remove the plate and you will see this, the brake holder and blocks. Note the blue grease everywhere as standard on the penns from the factory. Clean off all excess grease.
A picture of the sideplate removed with brake drum and ratchet assembley, again remove excess grease.
You can now remove the spool and spindle from the frame, and then remove spindle from spool simply by pulling out.
Picture of a clean sideplate ready for a light greasing.
a picture of the frame looking into reel.
Now back to the spool, remove the 3 screws holding the block holder on then remove the holder. These reels do suffer with block issues, they burn out and re engage themselves. I will at some point mag this reel or fit different blocks but until these burn out I will use them. Now then were was I,
Right then to stop the re engaging faults I removed the blocks I was not using, you can do this with a small nose pliers by pulling the metal pin up, be careful not to lose the block and spring setup, handy for when the ones in the reel burn out. I have mine running on 2 blocks as you can see.


Start by removing the 3 screws on the left hand side plate.







