DaveMc1

It's a run of the mill plastisol, no different than what we use, Powerbait is a scent that they add to it

No they don't sell anything smaller than drums. Unlike some manufacturers they won't compete with their resellers (Spike it doesn't sell their plastic to any resellers ) Give Leonard a shout at BaitJunkys, he will take care of you.

The proper term for it is pulse laminate.........can you guess how they do it? LOL pulse the 2 colours back and forth

Yes, block the rear gate and open the body and you can shoot solid and laminate colours. On a machine the bar at the rear gate is manually operated and the one through the body is automated.

No, you would need to machine the aluminum bar and the tolerances need to be WAY too tight for it to work.

The way the big manufacturers are making baits with chartreuse tails is with large automated slide bar molds. They block the tail of the cavity off and shoot it (chartreuse in this instance) and open it then shoot the body colour(s) all in one motion. Even in a production setting there is the extra runner so there is added waste. Leonard over at Baitjunkys is producing real slide bar molds for the hand pour guys as well, but be aware they are not cheap as they are made with 1" bar stock instead of the normal 1/2" - 5/8" bar and there is the added machine work for the slide bars.

In the video, its just garbage plastic. Just showing that it works is all.

Imagine being able to pour all your open pour molds without ever having to microwave the plastic and having as much plastic on hand as you want. Bucket of raw pre coloured plastic pumped through a heat exchanger and through a hand controlled nozzle at low pressures. Add a second heat exchanger/nozzle and you can pour 2 colours at a time etc. Heck, with a different fitting you could inject any hand injection mold.

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I am always adjusting how the injector fits the clamp brackets that it fits in when filling, adjusting the temps as needed depending on what I am shooting etc, once I have everything adjusted for the run its good to go. I have only setup the PID's once, thats all they should really need. The biggest thing with these pots vs a presto pot is that there is far more material between the heating element and plastic to help give it a more even heat and the pots are insulated, both those aspects combine and make these pots easier on the plastic. With a little stabilizer I have no issue running white and pearl through the pots and also run a lot of translucent drop shot baits.

As said, it aint a perfect setup, but it is the best we have on the market right now and it works when you figure it out.

Nope, you go from the pot setups straight into full production kind of stuff.

8 Cup Pyrex's and a pair of microwaves, you can have a gallon of plastic coming out of the microwaves every 15 - 20 minutes (depending on how new/worn out they are and the power of them) 98% of what I make I already have colours formulated for so I mix the colour in before heating, add flake and salt after heating and dump it in the pots to keep it hot. RTM is right, it isn't perfect, it takes short adjustment period to figure out its quarks but once you have it down you can push a lot of plastic through it (Talking about the larger 2.5 gallon pots) running the right baits I can shove 12 - 15 gallons through it a day, not bad for hand injecting.

every microwave is different, hence the push to use a thermometer, it will help you make sure it's been properly heated

It's all "Non Toxic" Now, MF, Calhoun, and any other plastisol sold is a PVC material and you NEVER want to expose anyone, especially children.

Dyes bleed. Whatever you use a dye in will bleed over to other colours or baits. Pigments don't bleed into other colours or baits. Any colourant that is labeled as non-bleed is a pigment. You cannot get the transparency or vibrance that some dyes have with a pigment.

No idea whats going on over there

Hey buddy, right here A good red https://www.ispikeit.com/product/625/clear-red-167 Chartreuse https://www.ispikeit.com/product/259/chartreuse-108

he makes one very close to the mag trick worm. even makes a fully functional slide bar version too

It's most likely one of the large oem manufacturers. You could buy from them but orders will carry a 1000 - 5000 piece per colour minimum order. I haven't seen a mold just like that yet.

Your plastic isn't hot enough if it is chunky. As I posted earlier, microwave it and add it to the pots once its at the proper temp. Make sure the pots reach full temp before you add the plastic. The PID's on the SS setup are reading the temp of the base plate that the heating element it embedded in, NOT the temp of the actual plastic.

less than that And their per bag price was damn near the same or better. I bought direct from overseas for nearly 4 years.

$35k - $60k for a machine.

From what I understand they are freshening up all the machines so they should be in perfect working order, hell, there are a few production shops that are running the same machines from the same guy as we speak. Production wise, you are looking at the same type of equipment that your major mass produced baits are made on (strike king, zoom, berkley etc) This is not hobby or small business type equipment, it's a production machine made to run production molds. FYI, a brand new machine built for you will run between $30k and $45k depending on options.

And no, the Shooting Star setups use their own injector designed to operate the manual valves that allow you to draw plastic directly from the bottom of the pots and draw plastic from 2 separate pots simultaneously to inject laminates.