Which tackle shop did you go to? Maybe cannot name here but the major ones haven't been a problem as far as I know but then I self service my reels. Daiwas not difficult except magseal bearings. I wont do those and cant get the mag oil/grease anyway. Tear down is always easy and the trick is not to lose parts. I put mine in a little box or clean takeaway food container. With schematic you should be able to put parts back in proper order if you haven't laid it out as you remove parts. Only other thing is personal preference with what brands of grease and oil to use as well as solvents to clean. Don't use WD40 as this is not a lubricant. The most difficult will be to clean and re-grease bearings. Alan Tani (USA) got a bearing packer tool which fits at the end of a grease gun. Good to have if you do a lot of bearings as don't need to clean out old grease. Just put your bearing in and squeeze grease gun. New grease forces the old grease out. Otherwise, you have to remove the shields, wash the bearing in appropriate solvent and force in grease then replace shields. There are other bearing packers in the market as well which don't need the grease gun.

If you're servicing while having beers you may be losing parts. Easy to do given that some of it is so tiny. cheers

ken

 I get a long serving plate and lay each part out in the order that I removed them and take some photo's along the way. Done a Sedona, Symentre and Rarenium so far with the Rarenium being a bit fiddly especially being a 1000. Dunno if I have the balls to do my Biomaster though

 thanks alot boys my first job is a 1000 Stradic wich got diped in the drink when a stupid bloody seagull got caught in my line and was trying to free the poor bugger