 What is up guys, Joe Holland here. I am here with Sean at the world famous Jack Traps. We are gonna show you guys how to not only maintain but also repair a severely neglected Jack Trap that's been through some abuse. Joe likes to bring me the beat up ones. Yeah, I never bring them anything good. I always bring them back severely beat up ones. This one actually wasn't me. Although when I was younger, I did do the, I made this error once and whoever bent this one, what happened was they fished cold day, iced over, over the trap and then rather than chip the ice out before you pull the trap out, they just yanked it. They gave the yank and kind of broke through. When you do that, even the strongest stainless steel bolt will bend and this one has a bend in it and there's a couple other issues from neglect on this trap. So Sean's gonna walk us through getting your traps maintained just normally for every year use and also he's gonna help repair this one. Yeah, we see a lot of them like that. Just the end of the day, it's cold, you've had enough and time to go. So they rip them out. Two things you need. This is a number three bit and a 7-16th wrench. Those are really the only two tools you need for a real repair, but this we're just gonna have to swap that bolt out. So we'll take all this, that lock nut will come off. This should slide right out. Sometimes these washers will stick to the poly on those dims. So now we're gonna see if this will come off. You can get past that bend, being in good shape. Nice. Sometimes if it's really bad, you'll have to like cut that bolt with hacksaw. Stuff just won't come apart with it bent. Like that, it'll slide right out. Oh, look at that bolt. If that was really bent, you wouldn't be able to back that out of there. So you got to just cut it off. So we just need a new bolt. And I got one right here. And this is not catch up. It's actually lithium grease. So then this is like a regular maintenance thing, a yearly thing anyway, right? So it's good to do this, you know, every year, every other year. If you pull your reel off, just get a coat of grease on that bolt. We do this before we send them to you, but slide that in, it's a little messy. Clean that off of there, just like new. And then this is a good thing to look at at the start of the season or sometimes in the middle of it. As wood humidity changes and it's going from water to maybe sitting by wood, silver, whatever, the wood will swell and shrink and swell and shrink. And sometimes these nuts can loosen up. So it's good to check them and make sure everything's good and tight because what can happen is if those nuts come loose, they'll bind your reel up and you don't want to have that when you're fishing. So you just tighten these two nuts towards that wood. You want to leave a good little gap. I typically say about the width of the wire on the tripper, that's a good gas for that gap. Make sure everything's just as tight as you can get it. And then that'll help. Okay, so these, you want these really tight. Really tight to the wood because that's holding that bolt. Nice. That's good enough. Stationary on the wood and then that way that reel can free spool. Nice. Aside from this, this trap's not too old. So the grease in the tripper, you don't really lose that like you do in your reel. You know, as a reel's spinning and it's going from cold to hot, that grease can work its way out. The grease in your tripper doesn't quite so much. But it's good, kind of like an oil change. If you pull this clip off, we can show you real quick. How often do you do, would you recommend this? I would say, you know, probably five years or more. You can go. So there's a little grease hole right there. This, we used to use a white grease before we changed to that red stuff a few years ago. So it'll be, I would say two or three years before you really got to worry about it on this trap. The grease will just start to wear out and harden. And it allows water to get in. You'll know, if you notice your tripper's freezing when it's really cold, it's time to push that grease open. You just push the grease through that hole and it comes out the end until you start seeing fresh grease. Just run the staples of loosened up a little bit. Just give them a little tap. At a time where your staples pop out, you can like put a toothpick in there and break it off. It just kind of gives a little wedge. So when you put the staple back in, it just gives it something to hold because now those holes have been worn out and you put a staple in, it's just gonna fall right back out. That's about it. She just like knew now. Awesome, thank you, Sean. Hopefully that helps you guys at home. Grease jobs, always a good thing. I do it every year on mine. I do the trippers every couple of years or I bring them out here to Sean because he's the professional. But I do the reels at least once a year. Not that you have to, I just like that. I like having that grease on me. Yeah, the more grease you can have in those reels, it will work. It's all about how much you use your trap. So if you use them a lot like Joe, by the end of the year, there's not a lot of grease left in there. So if you go another year, you're gonna have problems freezing up when it's real cold. So it just makes your fishing trip a lot more successful when you maintain the things like that. Awesome. If you guys have any questions for Sean, leave them in the comments and let us know about your favorite jack trap story. Thanks for checking in. Thanks guys.