Jig Man
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I don't use salt much but when I do I use Kosher salt and grind it into a powder in a coffee grinder. I have to keep it stirred as it sinks to the bottom. I have never had it clump or burn.
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I don't do that much at a time but I put my pyrex cup back in the micro while I am waiting for the molded plastic to setup. I give it a 30 second shot and stir it to check out its viscosity.
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I mostly use red/black/silver/green/blue/copper/holographic and shad.
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They don't get anything except powder on them because they are not hot and it wipes right off with a paper towel when I get done with a color.
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I keep the paint out to begin with. When I dip a jig I hold he eye with a pair of needle nose vice grips. They keep the paint from getting on the eye and by using a low temp and fluid bed I get a thin coat of powder so it doesn't run when cured in the toaster oven.
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Petroleum jelly, salt, garlic powder but not worm oil. Give it a try.
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Maybe you should buy the valve. I have a $9 Wally air pump and I use a lot of HF paint. I don't get much in the volcano line but when I turn on the air I stir the paint with a popsicle stick and it floats and does just fine.
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Wooly for the smaller jigs I taper down my pin slot with duct tape and use electrical wiring for pins. I buy fg 12 from Ztackle and don't have to do the seperating thingy. It is a bit more costly but I am not in the selling business so I don't use more than a hundred or so each year.
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I'm sure that will work. That is a lot more work than I have done. I'm lazy and just mixed some salt and garlic powder into unscented petroleum jelly. I can gom it on a jig and it will stay on all day.
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Once again a slick way of doing things Frank. However, I would have liked to see the finish product.
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I have done it both ways but prefer to pour. I get a better bait that way and I can do lams and swirls.
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I don't like smoking molds but did on one of my poison tail molds. It just wouldn't pour any other way (even cracking it). It works fine now. I smoked it and wiped all the stuff off the flat surfaces. I left the cavities smoked. It is cheap and if it works you won't have to buy anything.
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Another thing you can do is put the jigs in snack bags a half dozen at at time. Then when you go fishing drop a sack on the curteosy dock for some other guy to find and have. I do that with my excess jigs and homemade plastics once in a while even a crank or top that I don't use.
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I've never done anything except put them in a cardboard box and put them on a shelf in the garage closet. I have never even considered anything happening to aluminum while not in use.
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I really hope you come up with something squig. I have quit borrowing the 1/16 oz mold as it takes me a very long time with a lot of remelts to get 50 heads. I'd like to borrow it again with a workable plan and make a couple of hundred for FnF to use on crappie but not the way it has been in the past. Keep us posted.
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A couple of friends have them. I have borrowed them and they are the hardest to pour molds that I have ever used. I have my best luck in the hot summer time for some reason or other. Both of those molds are smoked and I even heated the hooks sometimes. Good luck. If you come up with something please post it.
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When I use thread I get flat waxed from BPS. It is really strong and comes in lots of colors.
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I keep all of mine in their original boxes in the garage closet next to my work bench where I make my baits. Some of them have been in there for many years and I have never experienced any problems with them.
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I have been ordering from their wholesale place Shorty's Hook Sales for years. That is the only place I buy hooks.
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I have had no success like you. So I glue my wg in after painting and curing.
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Big old brown paper grocery sacks not itty bitty lunch bags.
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Most of my filters are brown paper grocery bags.
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Are you sure your thermometer is correct? I get power paint to melt in only 5 minutes of heat time in the toaster oven. Then I cure for 20 minutes at 325.
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Here are a couple of things I do for drips. Sometimes they work and sometimes they don't. 1, I run a piece of spinnerbait wire up the hole to clear it out and increase the flow. 2. Heat the spout with a propane torch then open it up and let some lead flow out.