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I have been making a few stick baits with an empty weight hole in the nose to be filled later on the water. I secure the weights with craftsmart plastilina clay from Michael's. I have a couple other baits that have had the clay in them for a couple seasons. This clay doesn't dry out and it secures disc-shaped lead pretty well. Saltwater doesn't seem to degrade it. The clay can be picked out of the hole with a hook and a new weight added then the clay repacked and made flush with the body of the bait. I think if I were looking to make something that had to suspend perfectly and had to make adjustments on the water I would do this. Then could finalize it later.

If you put a PID controller on your pot you will never burn your plastic. Th PID controls the temp of the element in the bottom of the pot. The plastic can never get hotter than the element.