DaveMc1

Exactly

No, I am saying it isn't even worth it for them. I have yet to see or hear of a large manufacturer using spincasting for soft plastics. They all either use vertical or horizontal injection machines.

The Ukrainian guys are selling the centrifuge and molds to bolt onto it. Makes 100% zero sense to do this in the grand scheme of things, simple hand injection can out produce it while maintaining the ability to shoot 2-3 colour laminates, any flake you want and salt.

Why not just use something like this? https://www.alumilite.com/store/pg/46-Casting-Resins.aspx

Ultramolds.com

Why would you want to? Salt, flake and laminates become next to impossible to make with this method. Very good reason why you don't see this setup used in mass production.

That is about the best there is on the market. ZMan's material isn't a plastisol, it is an entirely different proprietary thermo-plastic that does require expensive production equipment to process it.

While we all do appreciate your experience on the production side, the quote I posted above came from the gentleman that actually produced these worms for Creme for years.

Info I got is "That is a special process Creme does. We made the bone colour worms and shipped them then they dye them somehow with a non bleed pigment. Would never tell me how"

Creme has a proprietary process they use to make those from what I am told. I spoke to a gentleman that used to make worms for creme years ago and they would get them in a base colour and then create that colour after the fact. The would not divulge how it was done though.

The only "semi auto" injection machines (that still require an operator and a lot of input, maintenance etc) are the full size $30k - $60k production machines that use $6k - $10k molds. They are very large and would no doubt cost an arm and a leg to ship. As far as the bubbles we would need to see a picture of the molds and the problems you're having.

In my experience, the marks are caused by pouring hot plastic in a cold mold. If it were bubbles you would have bubbles throughout the bait, not on the surface. Try warming your mold up and see what happens. You may have to vary your plastic temp too as well as vary how fast you're filling the mold.

Worm oil is a plasticizer (a lot are DINP, some could be DOA, DINCH etc) and are already present in the plastic (It is how PVC resin is softened to make the final product squishy and not hard as a rock like your standard PVC pipe) Either way you will have zero issue remelting it. Too much of it and it will act as a plasticizer.

You have the shooting star from Bear, where he added the manifold and injector from Ultra Molds to a set of presto pots and stirring setup. I have one of the first ones he sold here (hasn't been used in several years) and I'm not a big fan personally, never did like the presto pots. Get ahold of Rupert at Ultra Molds and he can get you the teflon o-ring

Post a pic, as I have never see or known of Bear using teflon or brass in his injectors

Good luck, I doubt you're going to find the components in small enough quantities cheap enough to make it worth doing. My understanding is it is quite a process and definitely not something I would have the room to undertake. If you're looking to cut costs look at buying larger quantities.

You can mix the powders with worm oil but you will run into the issue of the powder settling out pretty damn hard. Several suppliers do this now. The best colourants available like those from Spike It/Lureworks, the pigments are milled, basically smashed into a paste between 2 rollers before they are mixed into a useable liquid colourant, so you won't generally see much settling in them.

Funny, I'll bring in 8-12 drums at a time several times a year and have never had an issue getting plastic across the border. Might want to find out what the actual problem is.

Not likely, as their designs will all be different. you will need to buy the tip mold made for your bait.

Southern Plastics doesn't manufacture RoboWorm's baits, they use those machines to pour baits for Zoom and Strike King currently. RoboWorm has been using a different machine that they designed themselves (Greg Stump's dad built it) decades ago.

Exactly!!! Way I have always seen it, Why waste the time taking it out and stirring when you need to shoot several gallons a day. Only time I ever stir is when I add flake and salt before dumping in the pots. Same as you I have 2 identical nukers and I know one of them I have to set 15 seconds less than the other.

I doubt you're going to get anyone to give you the design for a heat exchanger as 99.9% of the time the design and layout is proprietary. Only thing I can tell you is your design there is way off from what I have seen in several heat exchangers. As the ones I have seen are not my design or layout I don't see it right to post it unfortunately. Will that work??? I don't know and you won't know unless you try.

The Gate on a mold is the opening between the cavity and the runner.

They are using a machine to pour their baits and stumbled on that pattern when the machine broke, they managed to duplicate it. other than that I couldn't tell you.

There never was a brain tumour, He was on his way out before the hurricanes. When you buy a $1500 piece of equipment from someone (before all that happened) after spending thousands on molds and supplies over the course of a few years, and have nothing but problems with the equipment and get a week of help and ideas on how to fix the problems only to have the person that built the system stop replying to texts, phone calls, messages and emails (yes he was getting them) you kind of get a different perspective on the situation. What happened to him with suffering from Alzheimers and the floods is sad, I wouldn't wish it on anyone, The situation is what it is.