Old fossil back to life again !

That`s how the good ol`Uhlmann reel - another example of indestructible german engineering in a row with the famous Lanz Bulldog - looks like after all the sweat, blood and tears ;-)
I hope it`s ready now for another 30 Years of relentless service for the fencing sport. I definitely don`t mind to wait a while till I have to put my fingers into it again....  X-D.

"We boldly go where no one was before."

We are still looking for an appropriate location to do one training session per week in the city of Galway or at least close to it. Therefore we really appreciated the invitation of the Claregalway Boxing and Kickboxing club to use their facilities to cross our blades. Tom, Egis and me had really good fun.

Keep on rollin`....

In our training session last Wednesday one of the club fossils simply gave up. No, it wasn`t me -
just the last ancient Uhlmann reel went on strike.....

To find out where it hurts you just have to open the housing on the connector-free side and lift the brown spring pack cover very carefully. You better put a helmet on....

....and that`s where the fun starts !
An hour later it was clear that the inner one of the three springs is broken. Tomorrow I will try a bit surgery and hopefully save the old patient.