My Thoughts On Baitmolds.com

[MonteSS]

Trying this 3.5 swimbait from Ebay. Took about three weeks from Ukraine. 

 

Mold looks good and seals well. There is a sprue hole that accepts standard 5/8 injectors. Then a small resevoir and then three gates to the top head of bait.

 

I was injecting, holding pressure 5-10 secs and then topping off sprue. Got some bad denting. I figured it out though and now inject, remove inj immediately and top off. No more dents.

 

I use NO oil in mold and even with all the thin fin detail and thin tail sticking is no problem at all. Of course they are dull since not aluminum

 

The tail is very thin and swimming action is great.

 

I got Spike-it (Lureworks) plastic eyes (as reccomended on here) and they go on great with mend it. No dipping required.

 

Being dull and hard to cut gates off cleanly, I'm sure how well they would sell. But great for my personal use and not so picky friends.

 

 

 

Edited September 29, 2016 by MonteSS

[Cami]

I bought 2 molds from Bait Mold and, after 23 days, I could use my silicone syringe to inject, it woks great with them:

Swing Impact Fat  3.9' mold V25/1

Crazy Flapper 3.6' mold C25/1

Details and appendages are perfect.

 

This evening, while I was surfing on the web, I found this new simple and effective idea of the Ukraine Friends: 

I think that the centrifuge machine can be substituded also with a disk sanding machine.

I suppose that a lot of us will find it really intersting.

Bye

 

Cami

[Baitjunkys]

Spin casting, not a new technique, not used in the plastic field much.

[ipt]

spin casting for plastic is really just more effort than you need, gravity or hand injectors do the trick just fine.

[hpssports]

It would make swirled & marbled baits a whole lot easier by pouring in two colors at once. 

[MonteSS]

Holy off subject Batman!

[mark poulson]

Holy off subject Batman!

 

And here I was, dreaming of what I could have done with all the record players I've thrown away over the years!  Hahaha

 

Seriously, spin cast looks great for a production shop, but I don't think it would be practical for a small shop or a hobbyist.  The molds alone have to cost a fortune, even if they're made of composite instead of aluminum.  No one does that much machining for free.

[21xdc]

Awesome video.... Makes me want to get busy.

[DaveMc1]

And here I was, dreaming of what I could have done with all the record players I've thrown away over the years!  Hahaha

 

Seriously, spin cast looks great for a production shop, but I don't think it would be practical for a small shop or a hobbyist.  The molds alone have to cost a fortune, even if they're made of composite instead of aluminum.  No one does that much machining for free.

 

Centrifugal molding for soft plastics really isn't great for the production shop either. There are FAR more productive methods of production in use. Molds wouldn't be all that expensive compared to aluminum production molds.

 

Hell, for the size of that bait one could far out produce that particular centrifugal mold with a couple aluminum molds hand injecting. I know I could inject twice as many cavities in the time it took to load the mold, spin it, pour in the plastic, let it cool and pull the screws to open the mold. It could probably be done with less remelt and you have the option of laminates unlike with that mold.