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I don't want to argue with Bassjiggin1955 and I'm not trying to start a fight. You said the president of Z-Man told you as long as you aren't advertising or putting them in stores you are fine. Guess what a picture on a website with an explanation that you have a business and it is word of mouth, is? If you said "advertisement" ding ding ding ding, you are a winner!!! There is a very skilled lure maker on this site who posted pictures of baits made with a direct blade to hook eye attachment on this site as well as others, can you guess what happened? If anyone from Z-Man reads this entire thread I will bet dollars to donuts you get a PM about it. As I said I'm not arguing with you as what you stated is true. However what you posted is in direct violation of what you were told. Sure, it isn't a direct advertisement but it is implied and therefore you are guilty of doing exactly what you were told not to do, just saying.

Just be very careful pouring it in so you don't get burnt. Sucking it up & turning the injector over on an angle & purging the air out of the injector is very easy to do so that's what i do each time & it works great.

Pure lead oxides at higher temperatures. Lower your temperature, scoop the blue off the top.

I've used clear powder coat but only on lead and not on polished surfaces. If you can get powder coat to stick you can paint on top of that. High temperature PET tape can be used to mask areas you don't want to get powder paint on and the PET tape (as well as it's silicone adhesive) will withstand 425 deg F temperature for about an hour so can be left on while curing the powder paint. In the application where I used clear powder I mixed in some mica glitter or flake and got the effect I wanted. Maybe you could try scuffing the metal right after applying the tape? There's also an airbrush-sized "sandblast" gizmo sold at Harbor Freight that might work for prepping the metal? Just throwing some thoughts out there. For that pink body you could def use pink powder undercoat, then cure that, then clear powder with glitter. For applying powder, I've used both fluidized bed and the "saltshaker" method to adhere paint onto the hot metal, then cure with toaster oven or heat gun. The "saltshaker" is just a plastic "pill" bottle with paint in it and a single (or few) little holes in the end to shake the paint out where you want to apply it. Last tip is if you need larger quantities of powder paint do a google search for "powder by the pound". I think that's where I got the stuff I've used. There are different formulations of powder paint so if you need to mix colors just make sure they are both the same type of paint.

yes powder paint on the spinner. on many flutter spoons powder paint creates a too heavy presentation.,and its slower in production processes.