Jig Man
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I think that would be the least you could use and have any dipping depth. When you turn on the pump, do you stir the powder to get it floating?
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Have you checked with John at Fin n Feather?
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I take my pins out before I paint. I hold the hook with pliers over the eyelet so I get no paint in it. I keep the heads as cool as possible to get a very thin coat of paint. I turn the head upside down and tap it against the cup rim letting most of the paint fall out. After it is cured I take a drill bit and clean out the hole. I sometimes use a coated cable for weedguard and hold it in place with duct tape. You might be able to do that when you go back to smaller hooks.
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My best guess is your heads are too hot and melting too much powder when you dip them. I like them just hot enough for the powder to stick and be dull. Then I bake them in my toaster oven and they get hard and shiny.
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Well I went out to the shop and looked at all the cups. Some of them still had bits of glitter on them so I took some 2" masking tape and WALA it got all of the glitter off. Thanks again bud.
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I thought about using some tape but that was after I got them cleaned up. The worst culprit seems to be the very smallest black glitter that I use in my various colors of sticks. Next time i'm gonna try the tape.
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I recently bought 4 of them and have retired most of my pyrex cups. I am, however, having a small issue with them. It seems that I always have some glitter sticking to the sides of the cups when I am done and take the plastisol out. Washing has not removed them. I tried WD-40 and a paper towel and it didn't work. All I have found is to take a popsicle stick and get them one at a time. Do any of you know an easy way to get the glitter off?
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I don't have a measure but an itty bit goes a long way. Most of the time I add hardner I wind up throwing the stuff away because it is too hard.
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I use coffee filter, vaccum bag filters, brown paper bags all held on with cheap silicone.
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Don't eat. Don't lick your fingers. Don't smoke. (WHILE YOU ARE POURING) You'll be ok. I have been pouring since way before you were born and I still have only 2 eyes.
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If you have any kind of reading lamp, move it to the baits and turn it on let the heat from the bulb be on them for a while and it will prolly trigger the setup. I have done that with epoxy and even when fiberglassing in boats when I did not get it right.
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Make one out of the brown bag and give it a try.
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I have used a lot of HF powder and it works just fine for me with brown paper grocery bags as filter material. Do you have a flow control valve on your air pump? What medium are you using for filters on your cups?
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I don't know the diameter but it comes in lots of different # tests. Janns or Barlows may list the diameter of theres. I have the guys at Bass Pro order it in for me. I use it in tube inserts from 1/8 to 3/8 oz and in my 1/8 oz poison tail jigs.
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I use vinyl coated steel leader in 90#. It is called Sevalon or Surflon depending on where I get it.
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Any of that will work. I have used most everything out there. The worst I have had is printer's lead. It really has something in it that is hard maybe antimony. It just takes a bit hotter pot to melt. Get what ever you can lay your hands on cheaply and learn how to work with it.
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Matt the reason I asked how many is I only have 2 or 3 that have had to be sprayed. If you have a pesky mold or so, you could bring them by and spray them at my house as we only live about 10-12 miles apart. I bought mine for the poison tail mold which has given me fits since day one.
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I haven't but Nixa Country gun and pawn might have something or Ozark Shooters. I got mine in Wichita, KS but they couldn't mail it and had to Fed Ex so shipping was more than the agent. How many molds do you need to spray?
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I like the nor por silicone cups.
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I haven't done sticks for a while but I got a lot of voids when I was injecting. I was in a hurry to get some made for a 2 week fishing trip so I wound up pouring. I'm sure I was injecting too fast but haven't retried it. With that many molds once you get a rhythm you won't have to lay the injector down for quite a while and it will cool off enough to clean while you are demolding your 4 or so dozen baits.
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Also check places like Jann's Netcraft, Barlow's Tackle Shop, Bear's Baits, Lure Craft, just to name a few. See what they offer and some prices.
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For FnF I use either a round head or minnow head in 1/16 oz with a #2 hook. I also use craft hair.
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In warm weather I put them in a pan of water.
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I only use the Sampos because they work for me.