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Jig Man

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  1. They are super people to deal with and in stock items come quickly.
  2. I hand pour with a 2 piece aluminum. I use silicone cups and 1” copper tubes as spru extenders. The copper tubes are cheap from hdw store. You might give them a try. They have solved some problems for me. Maybe they would for you.
  3. I assume you are doing open pour. Do you have see any bubbles in the plastisol before you pour? How far above the mold do you hold your container? Do you use spru extenders when pouring?
  4. I keep a vile of cooking oil on my bench. Before I start injecting I dip my plungers into it to lube the o rings.
  5. You have received some pretty good advice here. One thing I find important is to keep a notebook handy. Write down every measurement (oz plastisol, drops of colorant, types of glitter and how much). You may want to repeat a formula and I guarantee you won’t be able to remember them.
  6. I believe that I would contact them about the 1 year warranty.
  7. This guy is a professional finish carpenter and cabinet maker. My guess is that he will want to design his own.
  8. Thanks. I wasn’t sure if lexan was what was still used. I used to do some bill replacement with it. I will tell him so he can grab a sheet of it when he is ready.
  9. A friend of mine has several squaer bill crank baits with the bills broken. He is planning to replace them. What should he buy to make the bills?
  10. I agree with smalljaw. However I use the R wire only. In order to help keep its shape and prolong its life, I wrap braided line around the R then I tie and glue it. That doesn’t have any effect on the way it performs and makes it a lot more durable.
  11. I have never seen a Lee pot that did not clog up. I don’t know why.
  12. I have coated pop molds for a for a friend. I used Bondo fiberglass resin. It is what I use to make my open pour molds. It worked just fine.
  13. I mix small batches in plastic shot glasses that I grt at the dollar store.
  14. Check out the Angling A.I. 5.75. 4 cavity jerk bait mold. It may be what you are hunting.
  15. Epoxy paint holds up well. I bought 75 spinnerbait bodies from the mod of this site. All are red epoxy. It is incredibly difficult to get it off to use a different color.
  16. Instead of shaking paint you can “ tap” it with a makeup brush. Cadman is the tapping guru around here. Look up some of the threads on tapping.
  17. I bought it and got me 1000 1/0 Gamakatsu #114 hooks that were supposed to work with it. They didn’t. I modified it and filled in the voids with red rtv silicone. I did not like the bait keepers so I filled their slots with the silicone. Now it works the way I want it to work.
  18. I have never had a problem mixing leftovers but I always wind up with brown.
  19. I put the non pin side on some 1500 grit paper. I had colored it like suggested. All parts sanded so no apparent warp here. i took the pins out of the other side and put the 2sides together. PERFECT FIT. Put the pins back in and bad fit. I remembered Thai the pin had come out and I had put a dab of super glue on it. Who’a thunk that would be thick enough to make the pin too long. NOT ME. So I sanded off the glue and the “warped mold is fixed”. Sometimes I hate being a READY FIRE AIM guy.
  20. I have rocked the one side and it seems high in the middle. I will pull the pins and check the other side.
  21. I closely inspected the mold. There is no apparent corner damage. When I assemble it and press it together there is a slight gap either at a top corner or the opposite bottom corner. So I guess I may be back to.Bass-Boys sanding idea. One of my fishing buddies used to own a cabinet shop. I’m going to try to get his assistance with this problem.
  22. Ok that is another thing I didn’t think of. I haven’t dropped it but have some high school kids from the fishing team who come over and make baits.
  23. No hinge but thanks for the idea. I am going to have to get materials and go to a shop that has a flat work table.
  24. Thanks that is a good idea and one that I had not thought of.
  25. I have an injection baby brush hog mold. It sets on a shelf in my garage along with my other aluminum molds. When I injected it today there was all kinds of flash. The only way I can get it to work is to add clamps. Even then there is some flash. Anyone had this kind of thing happen to an aluminum mold? Is there a cure?
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