mark poulson

I use it all the time for anchoring my screw eyes. I drill a small pilot hole, run the screw eye in and then take it back out again. If it's a PVC bait, I coat the screw eye with super glue and then run it back in, letting the squeeze out form a pocket around the eye to keep it from rotating and unscrewing. I've never had that happen in all the years I've been doing it. For balsa baits, once I've drilled the pilot hole, I use a fine sst wire to put runny super glue all the way down into the pilot hole, so it soaks into the surrounding wood and makes it stronger. Then I run the screw eye in and back out, just like with PVC, coat it with super glue, and run it in again. I use LPO's weighted hook hangers for my belly weights, and do the same thing with the 1/4" holes for them. A word of caution. Make sure the glue in the holes has dried/set before you test fit your dry ballast weights in the hole. I didn't do that with one bait, and I wound up twisting the wire off of the weight when I tried to get it back out. I have built balsa baits this way out of hobby store light balsa, and the hardware has held up to fish, and slapping weeds off my bait. I did a lot just to test how well the hardware held, and it never had a problem.

Be sure to read up on the ventilation and respirator suggestions here. Check out post #10 in this thread: http://www.tackleunderground.com/community/topic/31854-kbs-diamond-clear/

Use an old tooth brush.

You can also try using half the amount of color in the senkos.

If you get lazy, like me, you can use nail polish with holographic glitter: https://www.google.com/search?q=holographic+glitter+nail+polish&newwindow=1&tbm=isch&imgil=lGfLEvDVvwcRpM%253A%253BQ4ag9H8YZkf7LM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwheretoget.it%25252Flook%25252F64346&source=iu&pf=m&fir=lGfLEvDVvwcRpM%253A%252CQ4ag9H8YZkf7LM%252C_&usg=__rdE6On6j0E3vVTMbPDMnPhjfOEo%3D&biw=1600&bih=866&dpr=0.9&ved=0ahUKEwidwa3GgJ_QAhVW3WMKHdz-AAEQyjcIeg&ei=X9UkWN2VCta6jwPc_YMI#q=holographic%20glitter%20nail%20polish&tbm=isch&tbs=rimg%3ACTpO3jEcaRT4IjhuAjU9AEdvzD6IDy5MkteHSxc6XWSzazgANL1AVUKqCjG6sKQ119Cd2xYHOq7U8rTTHdKrDWbuFCoSCW4CNT0AR2_1MERjCfFMpK9zTKhIJPogPLkyS14cRiG0H1Qx2DRQqEglLFzpdZLNrOBEtU8yG8MZW6ioSCQA0vUBVQqoKERjCfFMpK9zTKhIJMbqwpDXX0J0R0baU2B_1gCxsqEgnbFgc6rtTytBHdeQn--thrjyoSCdMd0qsNZu4UERjCfFMpK9zT

CVS is a drug store chain in SoCal. It used to be Savon Drug Stores. Any place that sells nail supplies should have it.

You might find something similar in the finger nail stickers at your local CVS.

AZ, D2T is much more forgiving of incorrect portions. I have found that E tex is much less forgiving. I use Flex Coat syringes, which I keep in holes drilled into the top of each bottle, to be sure my mix proportions are close, by volume. The tips of the syringes are tapered (cone shaped) so I drill holes that are the diameter of the syringe tip at the half way point, so they are a friction fit, and won't fall out. I use the 3 cc syringes. http://www.flexcoat.com/products/supplies-accessories/color-coded-syringes

This is from the GYCB website: https://store.baits.com/product.php?productid=5&cat=0&page=1

When I use Ben's cleaning method I remove the needle first.

Dale, I have some slow rise cranks that I want to use it on, to keep the weight down. Thanks for the info.

I have an older Badger siphon air brush, similar to the Universal 360, that I use when I have a lot of baits to base coat. It has a larger nozzle/needle size that doesn't clog with thicker paints.

Thanks.

In the past I've shot Createx Gloss Clear over paint before I top coated it to prevent any interactions with the top coat. Just be sure to clean your air brush right away and thoroughly, because that clear sets up like concrete.

Has anyone tried this as a top coat? I bought some to restore my yellowed car headlight, and I'm wondering if it will work for cranks, since it's supposed to protect plastic headlight lenses.

Those lures came out great! Beautiful paint jobs!!!

Yes, Solarez has some kind of a tone fume, probably acetone. I wear a 3M half face respirator with a 6001 filter cartridge. It's for organic fumes, and I bought it at Home Depot. http://www.homedepot.com/p/3M-Medium-Paint-Project-Respirator-6211PA1-A/100653900

No, I haven't. I tried a spray-on clear matte electrical insulation, when I was trying to get a soft covering for my hard swimbaits, but not Plasti Dip. I've been happy with Solarez, because it is fishable in three minutes under a UV light, and I'm impatient. The new stuff I have doesn't say gloss on the can, like the old stuff did, so the jury is still out on whether or not I'll like it. Tomorrow will be the test.

Kitchen exhaust fans have explosion-proof motors, to prevent grease fires.

Well, I shot myself in the foot again. When setting up my shop in my rental garage I bought and installed three 4' LED shop lights over my work area. They give off a ton of light! I can actually see when I'm doing again! Unfortunately, part of the light they give off is UV, and my dipping jar of Solarez, which sits directly under the LED lights, wound up gelled. So now I use only the old fluorescents, which don't give off UV, that are higher up near the 11' ceiling when I dip, and I just received another quart of Solarez Dual Cure resin. School is expensive!

If you put a layer of clear varnish on first, but handle the bait with your naked hands, you can still get fish eyes. The only way I found to stop finger print fish eyes was using nitrile gloves. You can get them at the drug store, and they're cheap.

It will work, and definitely after your thoroughly mix the two parts, or your epoxy will never set.

My 6001 package says they are good for 8 hours. I try and keep track of how long I wear my mask, and I keep it in a zip lock bag when I'm not wearing it. So far, I'm up to 2 hours on this set of cartridges. I wipe the inside of my mask with a kleenez before I put it into the baggie, because moisture builds up as I breathe, and I don't want mold to grow in it.

Forgive a basic question, but I live where water is soft twelve months a year. What kind of action does an ice fishing plastic need to have?

That's why I slapped the weeds off. I wanted to see if my super glue-reinforced sst screw eye hardware mounts would hold up, and they did. I wouldn't try it on big baits because I don't think I need balsa for them, but it is so much easier than thru wiring, I thought it was worth finding out if it worked, and, for me, it does.