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Les Young

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  1. As far as molds go lots of makers are 3 weeks or so.
  2. I've never had a problem with their plastic at all. You can get degassed. You can call them & ask pretty much anything you want or you can look for any post by McLuvin on here & shoot him a message too.
  3. Calhouns is good stuff if it's the same stuff baitjunkys use to sale. Baitplastics was suppose to have reverse engineered the calhouns to make theirs. They may have but their are differences between the two. I've been buying from baitplastics ever since baitjunkys quit selling plastic. Lureworks is another great plastic too.
  4. I'd think a 1/4" or 3/8" bolt with an L shaped bracket for a handle & the belly shape welded & shaped or molded & shaped on it would well to make them by horizontal dipping them. What would really be nice was if someone like Bob at CNC would make a tube mold with belly shape on it to make them easily by injecting them.
  5. I agree with Bass-Boys on the belly made onto them. . You could take bolts & weld & shape a belly on them or use jb weld to make them.
  6. Temp & speeds are pretty crucial when shooting plastics. Heat it to 350 & shoot quick. Like said above heat the injector if it's cold. I mix in colorant & flake most times before heating unless i'm making a totally new color that i haven't figured out the mixture yet. This way i prepare the mix, heat to 350 & inject like a well-oiled machine more or less & seldom have any problems at all. The more you do it the more you'll get your system worked out & the problems pretty much become a non issue.
  7. Ask him what color crawfish he's talking about because like said above there can be a huge amount of difference between certain strains & regions where their from.
  8. Thanks guys. I can dip larger profile tubes for bass & they're fine but the thinner diameter of the crappie tubes just haven't suited me when i dip a second color. I'll just let the second color cool a little more & dip once & should be ok. I just thought you guys may have an easier way. No big deal i'll fix it. Thanks
  9. Chris I’m using either a nail or a piece of wire 1/8” diameter. Guess I’ll have to modify my method some. Only small 1.5” crappie tubes are what gets to bulky for my liking when I dip the second color.
  10. Do any of you guys hand dip crappie tubes? What size rod & also your process? Mine always look to bulky when i make 2 color baits.
  11. I heat, inject, purge injector & block, wait 2 minutes, demold & then do the whole process over again. I've thought about a hot plate myself but have never went through with it simply because 99% of the time i work in 4 ounce batches for a single color bait or 4 ounces of each color for a laminate.
  12. Most say heat to 350 & let cool to 320 to 330. After making soft plastics for years now i pretty much just heat mine & check to see that the two different colors are the same consistency & usually don't have a problem. I know from experience if i've got it to hot.
  13. I have a Jacobs mold & machine mold that i use medium plastisol to make soft plastic salmon eggs in hot pink & chartreuse to use as crappie nibbles. One or two a day is all you use unless you break off. Sure beats paying 6 bucks a jar from them.
  14. I usually only do 4 or 6 ounce batches but if remelting fresh plastic don't i have a problem . Iff heating more than once i always put a lid of stabilizer in it. Any older left over plastic i've stored for a while i cut up small & fill a 1 cup pyrex & add a lid full to it & that works out good too.
  15. What Mark said. This looks very interesting to me. I'd love to be able to make my own molds etc. that i think up myself.
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