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Word to the wise..wipe off the excess (paper towel) then fill a bowl with warm water and dish soap. The dish soap will not react to the plastic and is made to remove oil. Rinse with warm water towel off and let air dry. I tried acetone once and I could feel the plastic get warm and soft.

^^^This, never owned a thermometer. know your plastic and you can make it do whatever you need or want it to, 6 oz in 900W for me is 1 min stir 30 secs stir..rest 20 seconds bump 20 seconds..pour. I still tend to over think things from time to time making something more difficult than it needs to be.

Put some thought in to this as I was working this morning. Try 8 oz instead of 6 Are you intending on adding flakes? < this determines the viscosity you will need to pour at if you want good flake disbursement. (too hot and it will fall if over .015) This is also important if you're laminating Although I don't agree with everything that has been posted so far I'll conclude with this: Depending on the quantity of raw plastic you order and use. For hypothetical: 5 gal stir it daily and not vigorously just consistently or you will aerate it, just enough to keep it at a consistency/mix of components as it was originally produced by the mfg in large volume. One possible reason why your plastic is showing a yellowing before it is out of the jell stage...the components are not fusing properly due to the issue of misproportion. Personally I dislike clear almost as much as blue, it requires a great deal more attention to obtain and in essence if you master the ability to produce "true" clear you've accomplished something.

Couple of thoughts: You could turn the power down depending on the wattage of your micro there's a big difference in max power between 1,000 & 900 watt micros. The other possibility to explain your problem is that you may have a bad batch of plastic, it happens every now and then regardless of mfg. I'm assuming your micro is a rotating one not a stationary which makes a big difference as well. To narrow down the issue you could heat up 6 oz in a small pot and see what happens, turns yellow probably the plastic if it doesn't probably the micro. yea I know pain in the rear.

I haven't seen the bait in hand & I can only find pics with a white background. Knowing the recipe will be used in a tail that is appx 1/8" thick and I'm looking at the correct bait. 8 oz 1) Flo Red 10) Red 5) Black 1) Smidge .009 red flake< may take more Start with this it's not going to be more than 20-30% opaque at best especially in the tail. An alternative would be to add (1) drop of white (to opaque) but would require many more drops of red to offset the pink created and for each 5 drops of red added add one black to bring it down. To make the process faster have the mold handy and pour just the tail in a small section this will prevent you from having to reheat so many times. It's possible there may be a drop of yellow in it but I can't tell by the pic.

I couldn't agree more with Travis and I'll say it saddens me to no end, in time so much knowledge is going to be lost. At my age with failing eyes & arthritis my clock is running, I hope one of my children will take the torch as they have the gift. Those worms had 6-7 colors that skid took over 6 hours to make, 12 beers and 3 burns I remember them like it was yesterday. There are no recipes written. Thank you for the acknowledgements Jeff Piil Fringe Tackle Co

I'll call you this morning I want all three Thanks J