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Brshpile

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  1. I understand the expense of it. That is one of the reasons that I only dip when I have around 50 or so baits to dip. I just save the work up until that time. Thus conserving the opening of the jar. Also, when i purge the jar i only use a little bit of it. The only thing that stinks about the bloxygen is you cannot tell when it is empty. Anyhow, I hope you find another solution, it would be nice.
  2. Guys, if you put the DN in a mason jar and use bloxygen everytime you open it, you will not have any problems. I have been doing this for a year now and have not had any problems...
  3. I have a small sandblaster cabinet that I bought from Harbor Freight for like 129.00. I have used all of the blasting materials and have found that course sand works the best for me. I sand blast all of my baits and average about 4 min. per bait and that is stripping them down to the plastic. I have a 65 gallon air compressor that I run at 130 psi. It strips all of my repaint baits and saves an unbelievable amount of time compared to hand sanding. The only baits that I do not use it on are anything made by norman, I dont know what they use for clear but it is thick. I used to hand sand my baits, but since I bought this thing last year, I will never hand sand another one (unless norman). A wiggle wart, lucky craft etc.. strip to the plastic in no time, leaving a great surface to paint on. Just my .02 but if you do alot of repaints it is well worth the investmint.
  4. I am painting a few DT-16's up for a friend. The question that I have is how do most of you prep this bait for painting? I usually sandblast all of my plastic baits all the way to the plastic. On the dt's, since they are wood, do you just scuff them up or sand through the clear to the bait. I am worried about the weight if I dont sand all the way down. Has anyone had any weight problems with just scuffing and painting? Thanks...
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    Dn

    Could someone that is a regular DN user give me a call. I have a few questions that I would like answered. Thanks for anybody that will call (918)859-2182. Ask for phil.
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    Dn

    I have a small problem. My email is not tied to my computer. When I click on it, it pops up an email which I cannot use. I called them so I hope to hear something back.
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    Dn

    Is it available to order? I went to the site but just see the paints....
  8. Can anyone help me out? I am fixing to paint a jointed swimbait for a friend and was wondering how you guys hold them to paint. I usually use the xacto knife, but with the joints and the flopping around, is there a better way. I dont want the joints hitting each other while painting and clear coating. How do you guys do this without the joints rubbing and ruining the bait. Also, how do you turn the bait on a turner so the joints do not glue together. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.....
  9. I do use a fluid bed but the problem is when you grab it out of the oven with hemos and then dip it into the bed you only get half of it. And then that has to cool to touch it.
  10. I have poured up over 200 hammered spoons. The question I have is how do you guys go about painting them. I tried to powder coat them but you can only do one half at a time. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Would spraypainting and them devcon work?
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    Painting?

    I have a few of the pre-rapala wiggle warts that I need painted. Just message me and let me know if you have time...thanks!
  12. Why would you need the clear coat? If baked properly it is tough as nails...
  13. I started pouring my own cause I would loose about 5-7 a weekend. After the initial setup costs it is alot cheaper. I am putting about 85-90 cents a jig right now. It is also nice to catch fish on something you made and I dont feel as bad loosing them at that price. I am just not in the market to sell them, I give some to my friends and that is about it. I just got the shakey head that has the 60 flat and that is what I am going to sell. Every tx I fish I hear people gripe about the price of a shakey, so that is what I will be selling.
  14. I here you, I to like the jewel football jigs. Just cant afford how many I loose. I do like the new peanutbutter smoke and so do the smallies...
  15. Why would you want the flat eye on such a heavy jig? I understand it looks better than just a 60 straight, but think about this. 90% of the time you are fishing the football jig in rock, when you pull on the line the jig tips up, thus your knot will be grinding into all of those rocks with it. I dont know about you but I fish my football jigs on floro so that does not go over well with me when floro's knot strength is less than mono. The regular 60 is much better for that jig in the sense the knot gets to ride up instead of into. And I fish football jigs alot and it seems the flat eye gets hung up more jmho:huh: Also like someone else said The mold that do-it makes for the flat eye does not get to 3/4 or above. You will have to buy the bigger mold and modify it to take the flat eye
  16. Does anyone know where I can get some of the f/c round rubber at?
  17. I did the same thing but out of my 100 heads I poured I only glued in a dozen and mine did the same thing with the gel. I wont use it anymore after that. The white does wipe off some but not totally and I really dont want to create another step in the process of having to wipe white stuff off of my jigs. I didnt think that I was sloppy with it either. What is some of the glues that people use that dry clear?
  18. Anyone on here pour any twin tail grubs?
  19. I dont know why the leather thing is so bad! I had no problems with the gloves that I had and never even got close to being burned....sure they are a little bulky and maybe sometimes hard to grab a hook but even stuck my hand down in the pot to drop some lead back in the pot....and never felt even the slightest bit of heat that would worry a person...Its kinda like putting the eyes on a football jig. If you think about it, the football jig is mostly fished in deep water for probing, digging into the rock and dirt and getting beat up most of its life, so why would you waste the time to put eyes on it? just my .02 .....
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    Lead?

    I am going to my wifes grandfathers farm for christmas. He has junk collected and I mean tons of junk all over the barns and farm. My question is what all kind of farm equipement, junk, so much stuff its sickening, can I look for to get some lead out of. I know old batteries have lead in it but I really dont want to tear into them just for the little lead they have in them. Any insights would be great so I kinda know what to look for....
  21. I just went to Wal-Mart and got some thin leather ones. I dropped the pin and hooks a few times but never had a problem.
  22. I wore leather gloves and poured from a bottom pour pot. I thankfully was not burned in any way. I took all of the precautions that I read on this site.
  23. I can tell you first hand to go buy one or make it. I used mine for the first time today and cant see using anything else....
  24. I poured 100 3/4 ounce football jigs today and they all came out perfect. I then painted all of them using the powder bed and they came out perfect to. Thanks for all of the help with this. The information on this site is unbelievable, and I could not have done it for my first time without it. It was easier than I thought. Now onto more molds and more lead:) ....
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