lbslures1 Posted October 18, 2013 Report Share Posted October 18, 2013 I know that most of us use or have used Do-It molds to make our lures and as of the last few years getting the molds to pour a complete lure has become a problem in some of the molds. I have worked with the molds by using dremel tools on many of them and nothing I tried ever helped at all other than mess the molds up. I have made many molds with RTV silicone which some were good and some not so good but one of the suggestions from the RTV people was to put talc powder in the mold cavities prior to pouring shaking out the excess then it dawned on me to try the same thing on all my aluminum molds that were giving me a problem and it worked great. Simply heat your mold as a standard procedure then open the mold then put a fair amount of talc powder into each cavity of the mold then close the mold and shake it around a bit then dump out the excess talc powder then add your hooks and etc to the mold and pour the lead. In some molds you will have to add the powder before every pour and at other times you can add powder about every 3 pours. The talc has no effect that I have noticed when I paint the lures. Do not use conrnstarch, it will only burn, use only talc powder. I presume that the powder is so slick that it allows the lead to slide into the mold much easier. It works every time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captainez Posted July 19, 2015 Report Share Posted July 19, 2015 That sounds like alot of extra work.i had same problem with pouring lead. Then I started melting lead on a fish fry burner. The lead gets hotter I never had any problems with pouring. I find its faster also.i pour 100 spinnerbait heads in less than a hour. Same with jigs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jig Man Posted July 19, 2015 Report Share Posted July 19, 2015 I've not tried that. I just polish difficult molds then spray them with a release agent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy1976 Posted July 19, 2015 Report Share Posted July 19, 2015 (edited) If you heat it hot enough and use a release you won't have a problem. The graphite spray I use is in the pic and can be found at home depot. I like to heat the mold hot and then spray it but you don't have to. Good luck. Edited July 19, 2015 by andy1976 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
