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Hello in TU land. Hope everyone is doing well. Me and the wife just got back from our trip to Zorn Molds. The plastic injection machine is great! Although the 6 hour drive and the 6 lanes through Atlanta was a little nerve racking with a piece of equipment like that on the back of a trailer pulled behind my pickup truck. But she's home and in the shop. The electricity should be hooked up next week and hopefully I can get the air piped in this weekend. In the past 2 days we sure have learned a lot about the plastic industry. Industrial plastic injection equipment is nothing like I thought or read about. The plastic is not injected with air. Air is only used to hold the plates shut for the molds and to operate the valves. The plastic is injected by means of high pressure pumps which hold continuous pressure on the baits for a certain amount of time until cooling has taken place. The molds are made with water jackets running through them and the water is circulated through a chiller system which cools the molds rapidly creating a beautifully uniform bait. Man I'm telling you we got the grand tour. We got to see several molds being made some new baits that are coming out from bigger companies that are in development stages, not sure whose they were but I know of 3 big companies they do business with. If anyone ever decides to make this move, it's not that far out of reach. Plastic machine costs about as much or maybe less than a high end new Ranger boat. Ray and Regina and the rest of the gang at Zorn are just A#1 people to do business with. And the only way to describe Ray is he is a plastic guru. He knows every process and every aspect of plastic injection. But you've got to remember he and Regina set the standard for the industry. If anyone is interested in maybe expanding one day or just interested on how this machine works, feel free to ask. Attached are some pictures of the machine, Ray and myself at Zorn. I'm the taller fella. Thanks so much for the kind words we've received from some of you who knew we were doing this. And remember if you would like to expand, but don't want the expense of the machine we will be more than glad to shoot your baits for you.

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Yes Del we did get to meet Tony. Tony and Wendy do the computer work but we got to meet the whole gang. If you call, Tracy will be the one that answers the phone, she's as good as gold. These folks have really helped us through every step of this move. Ray told us before we left that we have the very best pneumatic two color plastic injection machine that Zorn has ever built. Ray told us he'd taken the best features from all the machines he's done and put them into this machine. In the course of our conversation, Ray told us that our machine was better than some of the bigger bait companies. As far as who the 3 are after seeing how all this works I can't really say any names because I wouldn't want anyone to say mine. But I can tell you this, probably almost every big bait company in the US, China and Japan and other countries have probably consulted with Ray at one time or another.

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Funny, my dad used to be the Principal at Tryon High :) Now he's the Mayor of that town, his first order of business was to get rid of all the riff-raff, so here I am in Youngsville :)

Looks like you're probably less than an hour from Charlotte? That's about 2.5 hrs from here or so. We can compare lakes instead, I'm not a picky BBQ guy :)

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