Jig Man
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Really. I didn't know that. I've never lived where one didn't vent to the outside. I used to melt my plastics on the kitchen stove when I first started out and lived in a duplex.
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Do it on the top of your kitchen stove. Just turn on the vent fan and go for it.
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Make sure that you mix your plastisol really really good before you pour as the hardner settles to the bottom of the jug.
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I mostly use green pumpkin, pumpkin seed, red, white, black, blue, chartreuse, and orange.
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I'd get some paint stripper, clean then powder coat if I wanted to remove the paint. On mine, I just heat with a heat gun then recoat with powder paint over the old paint. I don't bake them but the paint lasts a long time.
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Heat stabilizer is a must for light colors being reheated.
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If I am making more than one shoot, I evacuate the injector and put it back in the cup to keep it hot.
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I like my worms to be flat on the end so that they snug up to a sinker when I TX rig them so I cut mine off flat. That being said, if you want to round them out there are a couple of ways: heat the end with a candle or dip the end in hot plastisol.
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I use Krazy glue to put the eyes on and paint over them with hard as nails polish.
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A friend of mine invented a way to remove the second blade on a spinnerbait and easily replace it. He got a patent and sold it to John L. Morris. He said that he got $10,000 up front and $.01 for each spinnerbait made. I don't know how it is going as he got cancer and died.
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Put them in a bag with crushed garlic.
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I have a few times but I prefer Kosher salt from the grocery store. I powder it in my wife's coffee grinder.
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I have a little touch up tube for my truck. When I stops working I take the end off and soak it in lacquer thinner. What is the base of the paint? You should be able to find a solvent that will clean it out without sticking something down it.
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White Turns Yellow After Reheating Couple Of Times
Jig Man replied to asipo123's topic in Soft Plastics
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Hot plastic, sprue extender, small stream
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I heard that Bojon is very ill. I doubt you'll get a reply.
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It is a very interesting 2 color plastic. No two are alike.
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Give it as long as you can stand to let JB really set up. I got anxious on my first one and it came loose.
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I haven't had them do it, however, I bought the parts and redid mine for just a few bucks.
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An infrared thermometer is what I use. When the plastic cools off I put it back in for 20 second bursts till it is ready to pour again. I don't add any stabilizer until I add the sprus and start remelting.
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Get Kosher salt at the grocery store. Grind it into a powder with a coffee grinder or a blender.
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If you have any gulp stuff don't put it in unless you want the whole batch to smell like it.
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Mine is a $2 garage sale oven. I have used it for close to 20 years. I just learned where to set the dial to get a good bake and not scorch the paint. It took some trial and error.
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For really good polishing I use Semi Chrome. I put it on 1/2 of a Q tip in a Dremel.
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I use powder paint.
