Salt And Plastic To Make The Stick

[FLIPPY]

I tried adding 1/3 cup of salt to 1 cup of plastic,,,It totally lightens the heck out of it,,I use bears salt,,and LC soft plastic,, is it me or do you really have to reformulate your colors,,It totally changes the color,,do I add the salt first?? can I dissolve the salt in something first?... I cant believe how much it changes the color,,I have even ground the salt even more, it makes flakes look like rocks,,Can I add the salt to plastic before its heated,,,How do you guys do it??

Edited April 6, 2013 by FLIPPY

[MonteSS]

Yes the salt clouds the plastic and makes them opaque. The finer the salt the more it does this. Bears salt suspends great and the baits stay decently durable but as you have found has that bad side effect.

 

...Bill

[FLIPPY]

Bill, Thanks for the response,,I thought something was wrong with what I was doing,,,Thanks,,,,Jim

[ipt]

i use diamond the finer salt NO IODINE!

 

i mix my colors and salt before i heat it up.

 

colors need to be almost x10'ed. i use about 75 drops of purple in 8oz of plastic with salt

[Smallie]

There are sinking plastisols available which reduce the amount of a salt and in turn the distortion of your salt-less recipes but either way, you need to reformulate when you go with salt or from light salt to heavy salt.

[FLIPPY]

Ok, I thought it was me,, My formulas almost triple with all that salt,, Thanks for the responses,,Jim

[rgm]

What kind of salt and where to get salt? Will table salt do if ground fine? What is better to use a extra fine grind or normal grind? Just started playing in this pouring thing and need some advice, thanks.

[MonteSS]

Pickling salt from Walmart.

 

You can grind it finer if you want so it suspends better but then your baits are less clear and more opaque white.

 

...Bill

[carolinamike]

Pickling salt from Walmart.

 

You can grind it finer if you want so it suspends better but then your baits are less clear and more opaque white.

 

...Bill

I find this just to be the opposite, but you've got to keep in mind that I weigh my components.  Let's say I use 5 grams of salt, I find that 5 grams of a fine grind gives me less discoloration than 5 grams of regular table salt.  And also the fine grind does not displace as much plastic, making the baits more flexible and stronger than if I use a larger grind salt.  I'm not saying anyone's wrong, this is just what I've found out from my own personal experiences. 

[MonteSS]

Using the picling salt I could get a fairly clear bait but as you said it was weak. Bears powdered salt makes the plastic white and opaque but baits are nore durable.

 

...Bill