You guys see this tube bait contraption?

[jmik26]

I was browsing around ebay and saw this. Hopefully it allows the link but if not, the item number is 300212070993. Thought it was pretty interesting and thought you guys would like to see it, gets the wheels turning....Jeff

[wrm-n]

Seems to be a lot of money... for a starting bid and a Buy It Now. May be worth it... I don't know

[jmik26]

You could probably make it for 1/4 of that price. Pouring pot, gas pipe, bunch of couplers and elbows, rods, and drain cover.

[LedHed]

Think it's the 2nd posting for it - seen it before.

[Minuteman]

It would certainly get Homeland Securities attention if you left it laying in the back of your pickup.

[Spike-A-Pike]

It may take a while to figure out how to safely get it up and running. It would be a tinkerer's project to play with. One thing is sure, he didn't pay anything close to his $700.00 buy it now price. On a slow day, it may have done good to go for $100 bucks... I hope former owners retired from the business and didn't go under.

[King Bait Co.]

I think I can make one. Heres a list_

Fence Post Pipe, Tee, Reducer, Cap, Smaller dia pipe for the raising and lowring of the tubes, Spring probaly make your own, A fire ring set (used to run stove pipe though a wall), Some small hard pipe short peices for the dipper, some JB Weld, a cheap small fryer and don't forget the house and personal insurance.

[Smallie]

The $4000 investment is an exageration but those warming pots look like RiteHete pots so they would go for $400 or so each to buy new and the rest of the stuff would add up quickly unless you had a lathe to make the round parts and a access to a milling machine for some of the others.

Can you do it with presto pots instead of the insulated warming pots - of course. But if you want to duplicate that set up, $550 isn't bad if everything works properly.

[King Bait Co.]

The more I look at it, it's starting to look home made. The dipper looks to be custom made to fit the pot. The rest looks pretty crappy, welds look a little sloppy for a $4,000.00 item. I do work in a metal fab shop. We wouldn't let the poor man walk out with it looking like that for four grand. Most shop labor is $35 to $50 an hour and their is maybe five hours in that and that push'in it. I could see a $1,000 to $850 new with the pot. He must be talk'in it up because the starting bid is so high.

[Delw]

Wow you guys are brutal on pricing.

I've made those for people and charged a heck of alot more than he is selling the whole set up on ebay( for just the dipper), Granted mine are a tad differnet but still the same basic design, then you add in 2 stay warm pots or Quality post NOT junk pots and your talking some serous money.

I cant see the dia of the pots but the ones my customers use start at around $1,200 each for the small ones with the right depth. they do sell smaller ones for 400-600 but the dept isnt there

Of course you can get away with a piece of 3/4" conduit,cut piece of cardboard with 20+ #2 pencils jammed through it and a preston pot and be far cheaper. DOnt laugh one of my customers has done it that way for years till he bought a real one.

Plus don't forget someone had to design it designing stuff isnt free and takes a more than a few hours and thats with haveing a picture to go by, if you had to do it from scratch you would have probally 40 hours into it.

I am sure when it all was new it looked alot better than the pic, looks like the salt got to it over time.

[squigster]

I have only been dipping tubes for about 3 months but I am confused a little on how you can dip this many at one time. If you dipped as many as it looks like in the pic (say 25 @ a time) your plastic level would drop so the next dip would be slightly shorter and so on and so forth same as doing it in an 10" deep aluminum cup I use (1 at a time) which lets me make about 20 - 25 douple dipped tubes before refilling. It looks like you cant see the tube rods when they are dipped so how would you know where to dip to? You would be constantly having to add more plastic. I am assuming so by the pic that they are manually dipping those.

[Smallie]

Maybe that's why there were two heat pots. One is warmng up while you dip in the other.