[Terrydabassman]

Got your PM and sent you the links to the tutorials.
I use the plastic cups to seal my baits. One container has lasted me a few years so far.
I cannot think of a less expensive method to seal the wood, puts a smooth rock hard shell around the wood and ready to paint.
I found the longer you let it set, the harder it gets, even hard to put a thumb nail into the balsa wood beneith...but then again, I "really" coat them.

[Spike-A-Pike]

Terry,
Got your PM and had a fun afternoon playing in MS Word, Adobe, posting... Thanks for a great time.

Any way I can con, I mean, talk you into assisting me in recreating the Plastic Dip for Sealing Wood Baits tutorial that Tally originally made. I need someone to step up and act as a Subject Matter Expert and take the pictures to fit the existing text.

[Terrydabassman]

I'm thinking it was "Virgin Lacquer Thinner"??? I'd know the container if I saw it again to get the correct name of it.
I remember buying it at Auto Zone and i also saw it at Wallmart, but the name escapes me at the moment.
It would be hard to make an accurate tutorial without actually making a batch. But I'd be glad to explain how to make it, photo's of the finished product and then what a wood bait looks like after w few dips.

[jflures]

I'd love to read about it

[Spike-A-Pike]

Was it Klean-Strip? I found a link on google linking back to TU.
http://www.wmbarr.com/product.aspx?catid=21&prodid=104

It's such a small world any more

[Terrydabassman]

It's very possible, I'd have to see the container. I threw mine away long time ago. They don't show "Virgin Lacquer Thinner"
and I'm almost certain that's what works best with the plastic cups.

[Swede]

In Tally´s tutorial it was Virgin Laquer Thinner that was used

[jimbo]

I,ve been using lacquer thinner to melt plastic for 4 or 5 years now it works much better [ quicker] than acetone.The plastic cups work well but have used different items as well such as seed starting trays the really flimsy ones that have maybe two dozen pots all attached .The best thing to do is put a small piece in a oz of lacquer if it hasn,t broke down in a few minutes look for something else to use. Don,t but to much plastic in all at once or you,ll be stirring till the cows come home. Try to put plastic that,s the same size thickness in if you put different sizes in the same batch they dissolve at different rates and just add to the agony of stirring and stirring and stirring. Don,t know about the virgin thinner never seen it here. Hope this helps

[hazmail]

Sorry , can't resist- there is plenty of Lacquer thinners around, but not many virgins. pete

[FishPA]

yeah it was the Klean Strip Virgin Lacquer Thinner in the teal colored can. Available at Walmart.