Custom Line Spooler

• If you love fishing, spooling fishing lines will be an indispensable work in your fishing time. When I started fishing, I considered spooling the fishing line to the reel as tedious and complicated work. I couldn't find a great spot to place the line so it kept rolling everywhere. I then started to search online, planning to buy a line spooling machine. However, the average price was approximately 30-40 dollars, which is very expensive in my opinion. Therefore, I made this line spooler in a simple version but at a considerably cheap price!
• In this product, you will find different related standards, practices, and contexts from the 2020 Standards for Technological and Engineering Literacy.

• Core Disciplinary Standards

• Standard 2: During this design, students are able to learn how to effectively utilize engineering resources including tools and machines, materials, capital, money, knowledge.
• Standard 7: In the eighth key idea of "Design in Technology and Engineering Education", it claims that there are many approaches to design. This is the main reason that I came up with this idea because all the line spoolers on the market are expensive, so why not build a similar one at home?

Technology and Engineering Practices

• Creativity: Based on all the line spoolers on the market, students can learn what is the best way to build an affordable homemade line spooler using their creativity.
• Making and Doing: After gathering the ideas, students are able to learn how to actually make the line spooler with the materials that we have.

Technology and Engineering Contexts

• Energy and Power
• The Built Environment

Learning Objectives: In this product, students are able to make their own custom line spooler creatively by just using the resources around them. Students can also practice some basic skills of crafting during making this project.

• A box (deep enough to hold the line)
• Scissors
• Same size bolt and nut
• Flat washers
• A craft knife to cut the hole

Cost: $8

Make your box into a cube without the top side by using scissors.

Measure the diameter of your bolt and draw two circles parallelly on the box, and then use the craft knife to cut through both holes.

Nice and gently insert the bolt into the hole, or it will make a lot of noise.

I chose the 3/8“x 8" size for the bolt because it can go through the hole on almost every fishing line case on the market.

Find the hole in the center of your fishing line case and let it go through the bolt.

Put the flat washer and the nut on the bolt, and then tighten them.

For the flat washer, I strongly recommend you guys the 5/16" washer instead of the 3/8" one. It is because the 5/16" one can perfectly fit in the bolt but the 3/8" one ends up leaving some space.

Here are some suggestions for you while spooling the fishing line.

• Make sure that you are at least 1.5 foot from the line spooler
• Make sure your line is perfectly straight
• Make sure you are giving a little bit of downward pressure when spooling the fishing line so that the line can be equably spooled to the reel.

Go out and enjoy your fishing trip!