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One thing you might try is enclosing the ball in a piece of drinking straw or other type of tube so it will slide back and forth easier. It's bad if your ball gets glued somewhere in the channel.

Don't have anything to prove here considering the source. Just one word wholesale! Some of you guys might even have used them on the west coast. Never kiss and tell. Way to busy as it is. As for a website don't have one and never will.

Carolina Mike has experience from small to XL and has a lot of current knowledge about high production systems. He might be the man you want to communicate with.

It contains solvents and a resin and I'm sure it hardens wood. To what extent it also waterproofs the wood is a different question, which can only be determined by experience. I call the coating over raw wood "undercoating" and it has 2 functions. First, it seals the wood grain so it will not rise when you paint the lure with water based acrylic paint. Second, it is a durable waterproof layer which, along with the topcoat, protects the lure from water penetration. I use epoxy, propionate, or UV cured polyester resin (Solarez) as undercoatings. Other guys call it "sealer" or "primer" and it confuses the issue to me. I think a sealer's function is only preventing grain from rising, and I think of primer as a paint adhesion coating. Another issue to consider is whether the Minwax will be compatible with the paint and topcoat you use over it. Most undercoat products are OK with acrylic paint, but paint containing solvent might not be. If it isn't, you may see fisheyes in the paint. Topcoats containing solvent are often very selective about compatibility with particular undercoatings. All of us use a "devil's brew" of undercoatings, paint, and topcoats. None of them were specifically designed to work together so we can only try different sets of coatings and see if they work or fail.

Thanks dlaery. They have a ton of electroplating equipment on their site. Not sure I'll be able to justify the prices to do a few baits though. Not unless I started plating plastic blanks for sale. thanks again for the info, Ben