Biggest screw lock you can buy in bulk

[aulrich]

Hi folks I am looking for a screw lock bigger than the do-it screw lock.  Its intended purpose is to get molded into a lead head.

[Jonah]

maybe you can get some wire and a rod and Make your own

[Dink Master]

Amazon

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=screw+lock+fishing&crid=3ESP2GCPWHYMF&sprefix=screw+lock+%2Caps%2C169&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_8_11

[NickQ]

Also check Barlowstackle. They have quite and aray. Just type in the search box screw lock.

[aulrich]

Thanks,  I should have been more clear. I am looking for a screw lock that can be worked into a casting. I am designing a lead head for an external wire swimbait rig. At this point I am using the do-it clip screw lock on a football head and there is a bit too much movement and the rig has a tendency to hook itself.

[Hillbilly voodoo]

Why not just make them?

I make the ones I use on my hybrid baits 

[aulrich]

I trying to build a bit of a side hustle so I would rather use pre-fab parts, the do-it ones are ok. What I mean by OK is that I have only lost one bait to the screw pulling out of the bait body .  I was hoping to find a slightly bigger diameter screw, but I can continue with the do-it screws.  At .09$cad per its hard to justify home made.

[Hillbilly voodoo]

14 minutes ago, aulrich said:

I trying to build a bit of a side hustle so I would rather use pre-fab parts, the do-it ones are ok. What I mean by OK is that I have only lost one bait to the screw pulling out of the bait body .  I was hoping to find a slightly bigger diameter screw, but I can continue with the do-it screws.  At .09$cad per its hard to justify home made.

I don’t know the weight, size or drag created by the soft plastic you’re attaching but nothing I could find prefabricated would hold up for my hybrids 

I use the small keepers for some of my jerk baits 

What size roughly do you need?

corkscrew only or do you need a pin?

casting it into the head or attached with a loop?

I looked for all kinds when I started my hybrid project so might be able to figure something out

Good luck on your side gig. If I knew what you were working with I might be able to see if it would fit for my customers

[dlaery]

i have some if you interested. I don't think I will need them anymore. i would sell a few or all.

660-547-2874

[aulrich]

 

This is the rig as of now the bait is a 6" shad. off of the football head I have the snaploc and a titanium stinger hook held in position by a spike. We have been using this for a number of years now and in general works like a charm. After the pike hits it the spike pulls out and you fight the fish with the wire and not the bait so that makes the baits last way longer. The bait will eventually get too chewed up but the record is well over 20 fish on one body. And that is something when we have had storm wildeye pike  destroyed by one bite

 

Here is the digital bar napkin  drawing of my improved idea. the circles represent sinker eye inserts

The improvements I am looking for.

Hopefully the fixed screw lock fixes two issues.

1. Reduce the hook catching the line in a head wind there is plenty of slop so I am guessing fixing that joint should reduce the hook catching the line but not really effect the lure action

2. Removing the slop will also stop the baits tendency to swim sideways at higher speed.  there is that time in early summer (a week or 2 either side of July 1)when old timers would say the pike have "lost their teeth"  so they are not eating as much. But I think it's the time of year when the cabbage is short and the pike get a long time to look at a bait.  A fast moving bait just above the weeds can be very effective that time of year.

The top line tie is for ice fishing 

 

[Hillbilly voodoo]

So basically a weighted external swimbait rig like used in Europe 

if I was making my own with prefabricated cork screws I would look at the options dink master posted a link for and mod them. Likely the best you will find and I looked hard for different purposes 

Other options look into ordering screw in weighted head from Europe in larger quantities. I have not seen them available in Canada or North America even but they exist 

I run my own version of an external rig same function different construction/materials for un rigged large swimbaits. They do work especially when it’s 8inch plus baits. It’s just not popular in North America 

 

[NickQ]

I have the mold for those external weights you want. They can be used to hold the wire for rigging under the bait wit treble hooks and also to add a tad of weight on a soft lure in a certain part of the body to make it dive or swim different. Is a mold I have since many years now and I bought it in Europe. The shipping of anything from Europe is obscene though. 

[aulrich]

11 hours ago, NickQ said:

I have the mold for those external weights you want. They can be used to hold the wire for rigging under the bait wit treble hooks and also to add a tad of weight on a soft lure in a certain part of the body to make it dive or swim different. Is a mold I have since many years now and I bought it in Europe. The shipping of anything from Europe is obscene though. 

Even though I have a plan I would be interested if you could post a link to those molds if you could.

The plan at this point I will be 3d printing a mold of a mold and use smooth-on mold-max 60 which can handle the heat (at least for a while).  Once I have the shapes and sizes finalized I'll eat the CNC cost

[NickQ]

[NickQ]

They can be poured without the blade insert in case they are intended to use it as an extra weight for a lure to dive or swim different.

[aulrich]

Those look interesting Thanks