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Thanks Dave, only sorry you will not be there - How do you like those ewes in the background, cute ay ?. pete

Screw their Screw Eyes , Mrs RED has the goods , what a great idea - one stop shop - With 6800 members surely we can keep a good woman in business, screw eyes, split rings, s/s wire, lips- now there is something, I am after 1mm poly lip blanks, are they available anywhere? cause they make the best 'formed lips'- (in my opinion, of course) and I am sick of grinding them out. pete IN CASE YOU HAVE FORGOT , IT'S 3 DAYS TIL BLAST OFF (and I'm still packing)

RED - Phil arrives @ 16:55 Thurs, we could assist you with some of 'That Machine' - if you trust us , that is . I get into K.C at about 21.30 on the 22nd, so have a day to kill. pete

What's that bridge look like at 3.15 AM - I bet it looks good at sunrise. pete ONLY 5 DAYS TO BLAST OFF

Gee Dave - I will have one of those when yo are back on deck . pete

I liked the 'Hammerhead'.pete

Try your finest sander dust and some 'dope' mixed, I use it for wood filler matching on furniture. Dries quick and can be sanded near invisible. pete 7 DAYS AN I AM OUTA HERE

A blob 2" in diameter, I would put 3-4 DROPS in (WITH eye dropper), it will go all stringy, mix welluntil it is as smooth as normal. I think you get a higher gloss using this also.pete 7 DAYS TO LIFT OFF

Mrs redg8r - I bought these at a $ shop, and they cost $9 (work that out). The town where we were fishing is a very small one, so this was about the only place to get some cheap shoes - I had 2 choices, pastel blue or pink and pink were the only ones in my size. Cockles and oyster shells are a problem in this SW lake, so a bloke can only do what he can do !!. WHY, do you want a pair? - it's a fair drive, but I'm sure I could get some !! pete 7 DAYS UNTIL BLAST OFF

Rofish- yes it has to be a very thin coat of glue, and yours sounds like a good solution- I just wet my finger in mineral turpentine and quickly wipe it over. Like you say, it does not need much of an uneven surface to show up on top, and I have not completely solved it- dust appears to be another, even the finest speck shows through the mylar. I have been able to persuade mylar to cover curves on 3" lures, it just needs good glue on both surfaces and time/patience to stretch it. pete 8 DAYS TO CLINTON

Vince-Neither. pete ONLY 8 DAYS TO CLINTON

I recently had the same experience with a 'Mylar' finish- the top coat lifting off, and heat was also a factor. I made them in a hurry and I think it was the glue I used, still gassing off. This vapor would build up quite a bit of pressure and something has to give. Depending on the base coat etc, you could finish up with a paint scheme 1/16" thick, which is a lot of paint thinners to 'gas off'. Dipping in primer would not help (although effective) as the coating is vastly thicker than when sprayed, and sealer /primers usually have a high solids content, which all adds to the thickness and time required to DRY. Saying all this, most lure manufacturers (here) warn of not leaving wood or plastic lures in the sun, especially darker colors. I have had 'flatfish' (plastic) and others, double in size on a hot day, just from heat and air expansion in the lure, and these were on the floor of my boat. I think any lure will blister, given enough heat/sunlight - I now glue a sheet of white paper on top of my clear lure boxes these days, seem's to help. Maybe water based primers/ fillers would help.pete 8 DAYS TO LIFT OFF, CLINTON

O.K, I just counted 15 + families, and 'Clamboni' is a maybe, which is 'party time'. pete ONLY 9 DAYS to BLAST OFF

Look up posts from 'KcDano', he had a great discription of how to make an 'inline water trap' (about 3 months back), cheap and simple too. pete ONLY 9 DAYS TILL BLAST OF

Lead Poisoning is a medical condition, also known as saturnism, plumbism, or painter's colic caused by increased blood lead levels. Lead may cause irreversible neurological damage as well as renal disease, cardiovascular effects, and reproductive toxicity. See here; pete Lead poisoning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia only 9 DAYS TO LIFT OFF

Kelly- Here it would be the rubbish tip recyclers (trash recyclers???), not sure how you do it there. I have 'gift vouchers' for these places, there is so much good stuff there. pete Nearly 9 days TO GO

How about a 'sticky index' with headings like; Top Coats & problems - Screw Eyes - Properties of Paints - Lip Templates - Weighting Baits, bla bla. Inside each category could the initial Thread Title be put here, with a link to all the posts on that thread??? With 6800 members and probably 2 new members a day, there is bound to be some repetition of questions and it's only going to get worse. I know from experience, looking after a thousand people, you can email, post on a web portal, text message them and they will still ask questions on things that, if they would only take the time to read, they would realize, it has been there all the time, staring them in the face. Maybe it just has to be made easier, rather than looking for a word to fit a problem, we list the problem and add the solution. As always it's easy sitting here typing, and not having to do all the categorization. pete NOW, there is only 10 DAYS to GO ! !