daved Posted March 18, 2005 Report Share Posted March 18, 2005 Does anybody do any volume production with these baits?How do you make them in large numbers?Where do you buy the plastisol in 5 gallon pails,what do you use to heat up larger amounts of plastisol.How do you clean the plastic to change over to a new color.Somebody like yamamoto how do they make so many soft plastics all hand pours. Anybody buy their plastic from manns? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pourboyplastics Posted March 18, 2005 Report Share Posted March 18, 2005 Hi Daved, To answer some of your questions, yes I pour large volume of baits. I use some Lee production pouring pots along with sta-warm pouring pots. The sta-warm are much more expensive but they hold alot more plastic plus these pots have a excellent thermostate control. You can purchase 5 gallon and 55 gallon drums from many different places. I would look at some of the other posts on best plastics, this has been discussed many times here. I don't know if I would call Yamamoto baits true hand pours but that is just my opinion. I think most of there baits are injection molded, but not completely sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.J. Posted March 19, 2005 Report Share Posted March 19, 2005 I also use lee production pots, and hot plate and microwave. Where do you get the staywarm pots at pourboy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fireball Lures Posted March 19, 2005 Report Share Posted March 19, 2005 Most large companies use injection machines and alot of the smaller companies just own the molds and have different comapnies shoot the plastics for them. Alot of the smaller guys here use production pots or something similar holding up to a gallon of plastisol at a time. The injection machines are huge and can produce a large volume of baits in one shot, these molds are custom made and can have as many cavities (or baits) as size permits. Hope this helps you out. Nathan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james bradshaw Posted March 21, 2005 Report Share Posted March 21, 2005 You can check out the Stawarm pots at sta-warm.com, they are pricey but very good temp controll. I haven't been able to figure out how to keep salt mixed in yet. still working on that, but it's getting expensive trying to figure it all out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daved Posted March 21, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2005 Hi For salt why not just add it to the cavities then pour the plastic.I have added rattles,stingers,jigs. Just have to figure how much i have to spend to set up production & make molds. To run high volumes,say 1000 of pieces a day how many molds per lure size would you need. I poured up some lures using manns plastic i bought years ago & it is very soft.What do people look for in a plastic bait,very soft ones or middle of the road? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nova Posted March 22, 2005 Report Share Posted March 22, 2005 This has probably been asked before, but here goes anyway. Has anyone ever tried a "slow cooker" or "crockpot" as a stay warm pot? I know that the thermostat only has 2 or 3 settings but I'm not so sure that it will be good enough. : Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
