Bassmaster Rick

Try Ben at Zeiners.

I got a sampler kit from Bait Plastics and I haven't used the #362 Super Tough yet. I did make some 6" worms using their #312 Saltwater formula and I felt that they were to hard for a worm, it's was pretty stiff. I remelted the worms and made some Senkos out of them.

Thank you for all your responses. I have changed and slowed down the way I heat it all up and the last couple of batches with the same plastisol was fine.

That's good customer service. Who is it?

Thanks. What part of California are you from?

It finally got under a 100 degrees outside so here's and update. Heated the well shaken 8 ounces of 'virgin' plastisol for 2 minutes and stirred. Heated for another 2 minutes and stirred. It started to turn light brown instead of clear so I decided to make some rootbeer colored baits. Added my color and stirred. Heated for 30 seconds and added glitter and some salt, stirred, it was just under 300 degrees. Heated for 20 seconds to get it up to 330 degrees and injected. They are some interesting root beer colored senkos. I'm on my 3rd injection with no jello. I wondering if I got a bad jug or if I didn't shake the new jug up enough at first? Thanks for all your help Guys.

I wasn't able to make a third injection before it jello'd on me.

I shook it up for about a minute. I'm gonna try another round tonight.

OK, I mixed 8oz of MF medium sinking plastic and I heated it up in 1 minute increments until it was clear, stirring it up in between. I added some MF light watermelon color drops until I got the color I wanted. I heated it back up 2 times at 30 second intervals stirring each time. I then added some glitter, earthworm oil, and salt and heated up for 30 more seconds until I got to 340-350 degrees. Injected the mold. First batch came out beautiful. After reheating and not changing anything the second batch came out very nicely but was a root beer color and it is a good color. I reheated for a third pour and my material turned to jello. I did not add any heat stabilizer. I'm assuming I did a rookie mistake of sorts but I'm asking all you knowledgeable people for a little help.

I cit up a pie tin and it works great! Thanks for the info.

Another Newbie here so go easy on me, OK? My wife picked up all my old plastic baits that had been thrown on and used as "dust control" on our easement and she said to do something else with them. I said that I could recycle them and she said to go for it. So now I have a 4" and a 5" Senko mold from Do it and a couple of worm molds ordered from BTS Molds. I'm still trying to find the Do It #95259 laminate plate but having no luck. I did manage to cut a pie tin as a divider and it seems to be working. I'm a avid bass fisherman of 50 years here in Southern California and looking forward to creating some baits! Is it to late at 64 years old to start a new hobby? Thanks for having me!

Great info here Guys. Yes, I'm a newbie. I've only bass fished for 50 years but my wife got tired of seeing all my old baits being thrown into the dirt easement as a form of "dust control". I told I could try recycle them and here I am at 64 years old making bait. I got a couple of Do It Senko molds for Rob Zeiner and I waiting on some molds from BTS Molds. Thanks for letting me in and go easy on me for a while.