Jig Weedguard/ Powdercoat Question

[keysd13]

I bought my first mold and melting pot and have a couple questions after my first trial run. I intended to use base pins with my mold and powder coat my jigs before installing the weed guard with the devcon epoxy as recommended on tu. the weedguards do not seem to fit in the hole properly after powder coating and after cleaning the hole with various tools. Should I simply pour the jig with the weedguard in place and then attempt to powder coat or will this melt the guard? Any tips would be greatly helpful and thanks in advance. I don't know if it matters but I'm using an arky style jig mold with the 60deg. line tie.

[cadman]

keysd

If you bought the Do-It ARK-3-AFC mold you should not have any problem with it. First of all that mold takes an 1/8" diameter pin which means that it will only take an 1/8 diameter weedguard. With that said here are some comments and ideas.

#1 The 1/4 oz. cavity of that mold has a very shallow hole for the base hole pin, so if your base hole pin doesn't go in very far, you will not have a lot of room to stick the weedguard which makes it harder to glue in. The other cavities are better.

#2 I always pour and paint my jigs and then put my weedguard in with glue. However I pour my jigs with teflon pins which makes them go in farther because they have no collar to hold them. I also paint my jigs with the teflon pins in place and remove them as soon as I paint the jig. This leave a clean spotless hole for the weedguard to go in.

#3 You can also drill out the hole if you don't want to use pins in your painting and you can also take off a few weedguard strands which will make your weedguard fit easier.

#4 Finally I would not recommend pouring with the weedguard in place unless you are going to hand paint or airbrush your jigs. I have never had any luck with putting weedguards in a toaster oven when using powder paint. I believe powder paint is the easiest and most practical way to paint jigs.

If you need more info on the teflon pins. PM me and I can send you pics on how it works.

[trw1273]

I use a dremel tool with an 1/8 drill bit to clean out the hole.

[keysd13]

thanks guys, I will give it a try after work this weekend. Is the netcraft powder coat as good as the pro tec? again thanks for the help.

[cadman]

thanks guys, I will give it a try after work this weekend. Is the netcraft powder coat as good as the pro tec? again thanks for the help.

The last time I checked Netcraft buys it from Pro-Tec and puts their own label on it. It is good powder and you should have no problem with it.