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Hi to all www.realsreels.com supporters.

I DO NOT SELL and NEVER WILL SELL reels for profit, parts etc but have been known to share any spares that I have or help source the same and provide private contacts to people requesting same. I do swap and exchange items, including Aussie reels, lures to friends. Please enquire as to my doubles as it constantly changes.

As you know this is a NOT for PROFIT website with the primary purpose/vision of freely providing as much Record ABU information in terms of text, graphics (and eventually video!), regular and up to the minute friendly help and general communication for ABU fans worldwide. It has long been my dream to achieve this status as a world’s best practice ABU website. The website has been online almost 3 years now and since October 2006, there have been over 3 500 000  page impressions (according to Google data), so  I know there are a lot of you enjoying the website! The unique IP  addresses logged recently (last 20 months) number almost 27 000 users.

Foremost I have thanked elsewhere, my son Fintan for the programming, my first Swedish mate Uffe Edefuhr with his immense ABU Record knowledge. Now, more and more new friends are offering their assistance to this website, notably Tim Parratt for creating the highly detailed and useful pictorial  Service Guides and Finn Bendorff Pedersen for his bright and cheerful original sketches/cartoons now illustrating this site. Hopefully, in future  we will have some light hearted stories to be shared by our more literary ABU fans.
                     

                 


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his has in part occurred due to the support of dozens of people who have donated family heirloom reels, rods, lures, badges, books, accessories and paperwork for me to share here. Also nearly a hundred people   who have been willing to share their treasured images and knowledge , and not forgetting  the thousands of beginning and experienced collectors who keep returning making this site so necessary for all of us. I am still looking for previously here undisplayed scans of ANY ABU paper work ie manuals, catalog details, factory listings etc that could be shared with ABU fans worldwide. All items are documented, acknowledged and shared for all to enjoy. Many thanks!

I thank those 48 people around the globe,  who have availed of the subsidized Len Borgstom ABU History Book offer, . They have all sold out now. 

See here for what was  http://www.realsreels.com/abuenglishbook1.htm

Apart from those of you who have actually gifted items of ABU products to my website to expand this collection, ( many anonymously) , I still need to pay out cash to host the site.  I have seen sites where a nominal few dollars is “volunteered” but I prefer not to request  this. I also freely provide links to sites of value to fans with no request for payment for such advertising. Glad to help both sellers and buyers.

I have been investigating Hosting costs and how to minimize these while continuing to expand, hopefully making the site as a dot net ( .net)  database driven one with extensive lists of models, parts, schematics all on one reliable fast website.

I am soon hoping to be able updates direct to your e-mail box, should you choose to freely subscribe to my RSS news feed. (Crossed fingers!) 

Should you enjoy on a regular basis what I am trying to achieve here, I am always willing and grateful to receive a few dollars donation to my Paypal         ( reals@netspace.net.au ) account each year to help support continuing development.

For those of you who have chosen to link to my website www.realsreels.com  for your E-bay sales, I do hope the reference helps with your business. Those who wish to, merely ask so I know about the link and I include you in my favourite sellers list.

Another nil cost way of providing  ongoing support can be shown to support this site, is to click a couple of times on the sidebar GOOGLE Advertisements (you don’t need to buy from these places, merely click and load the page) as I am credited with 7c US for each click of support by yourself. Who knows the new site may be of benefit to you.

Tight Lines

Wayne Real

   

 

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