MTfishingrods

Its OK if your OK with it. My guess is they are there from stirring. But dont take my word for it. One of the more knowlegable plastic guys will probably give you a better answer.

I would suggest the wife get a second job. This gives two benefits. It adds more income for more molds and tools. And second it gets her out of the house for an extra 8 hours a day so she dont know how much time you are really spending at this.

Jeremy, Only you can decide if it is going to be OK. Just remeber BE SAFE!!!! That is 350 degree hot plastic that you are putting under pressure. If that seringe fails and that plastic hits skin, its not like it burns for a second and stops. It will burn and burn and burn. You will be sorry. So you decide. Anything can be done safely. Even if yours fail you can use measures to protect yourself so its all in your hands. I believe Lurecraft or JansNetcraft sells a plastic injector for just over $10.00 that is made to stand up to plastic temp so if I was doing it I would go that way. In fact I have two of these that I purchased with intentions of doing just what you want to do. Then common sense got the better of me and I found the posts on here talking about vacuum pouring, and that just sounded like a way better deal for me and my 10 year old son. I couldnt live with myself had one of them failed on him, and he enjoys doing this with me way to much to not include him so we just needed a safer way. Good luck and post your results. MT

Some guys screw them down, some glue them down. On the few molds I have made, and believe me its been very few I have used rubber cement. If you use the search function there are better ways I am sure. It just happen to be what I had on hand.

Steel siding, Heat gun, Air brush, and lots of patience. I am thinking if it can be coated you are the man to do it.

If you glue your 2 pieces together with a piece of construction paper sandwiched between them.and then let them dry. You can cut your bait, turn it on a lathe or do what ever to it, then when you want it in 2 pieces again. A sharp rap with a good sharp wood chisel at the joint in one or 2 places and it comes right apart. Just make sure you have the entire surface covered with glue for a good safe bond if turning on a lathe.

I am leaning more towards Vacuum pouring than injection. However I used to be in the refrigeration buisiness so I have vacuum pumps already available. So that factors in also.

Dave, Without you even knowing it I believe you may have just solved a problem on a favotite mold of mine that I just could not get to pour right. I will post the results to let you know for sure, but I am confident. Thankyou. Shane

Welcome Jeff, And Great job. Wish my first were that good.

And just about the time your are thinking your getting real good at this get a couple baits from Ghost Baits or 152nd ST Baits and it will give you a great reality check.:whistle:I just recieved that reality check in the last couple weeks. Back to the pour station for me.:lol:Practice Practice Practice. Its a good thing this is fun.

OK since Spike felt the need to jump in here I will go ahead and correct him. He wouldnt know a good wireformer if it jumped up and took a bit out of the cheese on his head. :whistle:Haggens is by far the best way to go. A bit on the spendy side but hey, ya get what you pay for. If you want inexpensive then the tools here in this thread are the way to go. TU inovators are way ahead of the competition. And after saying all this I will admit I have never used the Boggs tackle maker. So I am dafinately biased. I admit it. But for someone who has severe arthritis in both hands This has allowed me to be able to bend wire nonstop with absolutely no pain whatsoever. Ans it was good to be able to give you a hard time again Spike. The Packers put on a good show yesterday.

Sorry everyone, I should have explained better. This will be in the water. It will only be in the water one time to be filmed for advertisement and then hung on the wall. I will draw up a diagram of what I had in mind tonight and scan it into the computer with the aproximate dimentions. I know this may sound like a silly project to some, but it has some possible good exposure for me so I would really like to get this to work if I can do it. So thanks for everyones time on this. I really do appreciate it.

Up at the top of the page there is a search button. If you do a search on types of epoxy you will find endless amounts of entertaining threads. But they will also answer your question. There are to many to list over and over. But a few are D2T, DickNites, NewLustre55,and on and on.

WOW What a find!!!!! And I am talking about the fish for the grandson!

I took on a project that I shouldnt have but we all know how that goes. Anyways I need to figure out a way to make a rectangle piece of tin about 18" x 12" spin sort of like a willow blade does behind a spinnerbait. And a 12"x12"piece act like a colorado blade. This is a Advertisement sign and the shape canot be changed. It can be bent slightly as long as it can still be recognizable to customers as it is a nationally recognized product. Ihave been through 4 of these and have only managed to get the square ones to spin satisfactory. They dont have to be perfect. Just operable since a video will be made of this being fished. Right now I have them drilled at a corner and kind of formed over a oval football shaped like object. They almost spin but not quite. Any other ideas would help tremendously. I am tired of staring endlessly at these signs getting nowhere. I am hoping someone like Pete or Spike will come along with an idea thats outside my little box that keeps getting smaller and smaller every day.

I am not sure exactly what your looking for gunnie but I may be able to help. My wireformer is one of my few tools I am able to see thats not sitting in a box right now waiting on my contractractor to show up to finish the job he started. Shoot me an email and I will see what I can do. montanafishingrods@live.com

Jim, Do you know what knid of oil was used? I read somewhere and it could have been here that mineral oil will cause the plastic to harden. Vegtable oil so far doesnt seem to. But mine have only been sitting for a couple months in the package also. We will see what sitting over the winter does to them.

I use them, abuse them, sell them, cant say enough good about them. Only bad thing about them is the shipping about kills me so I order about 30 at a time. You wont be disappointed. But dont tell anyone OK. Lets just keep it our little secret.:whistle:I would tell you who makes them but I am afraid of what they would do to me.:eek:Lets just say its a major rod company.

The price looks very reasonable. 5.00 plus shipping. Looks like what they sold for. Also looks like they were very well made. I will be watching for more of his molds. I have never seen it before so I wanted to ask before I decided to purchase any.

Yeah I know its not much info. I just saw a bunch of these on ebay and was wondering if anyone could tell by looking. Obviuosly I couldnt. So I dont expect that anyone else will be able to do much more than guess but I can always hope.

Can anyone tell what type of resin this mold was made of by just looking at it?