[jamie]

What im wanting to do is pre make my own ballast weight. These are weights that will perfectly fit pre drilled holes with a relief slot for epoxy to escape from when inserting the weight. The weight I want is shaped like a dowel. My question is what material do I make the mold out of that will handle the heat from the lead.

[bassrecord]

Originally Posted by jamie

The weight I want is shaped like a dowel.

What size dowells are you looking to make?
John

[fish_rman2000]

you could use a couple af pieces of 2x4 clamped together and drilled or you could buy a blank mold and drill it to size

[kelly]

Any metal will work if you make dowels to line them up like two peace molds for plastics. The two halves need to match up with each other fitting flat on each other and not able to see threw them even 1/4 in straping will work. Aluminum is the easyest to work with. Useing althread rod drill the two sides the same size as the threads. thread the one side and drill out the other side so the allthread slides threw. Then use nuts to hold the two halfs together. Just drill a hole the size you want. You might have all you need already in your shop for this project! Metal peace to cut in half, two bolts if you dont have allthread, four nuts, drill bit or two. good luck and have fun.

[jamie]

what im really wanting to do is make a weight that shaped like a dowel but has a tag that you can snip off for the run off, just like when pouring in a factory mold. You may have to cast a mold out of something, because the shape is more than just a cylinder shape so just drilling wouldnt work. I just didnt know if there was something you could make instead of having to go to a machine shop and have it custom made.

[bassrecord]

Originally Posted by jamie

what im really wanting to do is make a weight that shaped like a dowel but has a tag that you can snip off for the run off, just like when pouring in a factory mold. You may have to cast a mold out of something, because the shape is more than just a cylinder shape so just drilling wouldnt work. I just didnt know if there was something you could make instead of having to go to a machine shop and have it custom made.

Still don't know what size dowels you want to make. Since many different sizes (cylinders of lead) are sold in various stores, if you could buy the size lead weight you wanted, you wouldn't have to go through the agony of making, buying or otherwise getting a mold built? For example here in the Pacific NW we have slinkies, Mojo and other cylinder-shaped weights.
John

[kelly]

Barlow's Tackle Shop: Browsing Lure Body
Will this work I am having trouble seeing what you want. You could pour this mold with out the inserts with a little flashing on the ends where the pins would be. Do-it modal LB-5-A is a lure mold body that slides onto a wire but is in sizes 1/32 1/16 1/8 1/4 3/8 oz. I wish you luck if you draw it on paper and show us we might be able to help more.

[reeves]

Are you wanting a belly weight with the eyelet to attach your hook to once it is epoxied into the crankbait? I might suggest that you contact Mavrick, on this site, he carries all sizes and they can't cost very much.

[Vodkaman]

Mold for weighting swimbait hooks

ref post No2, by Rottweiler., in soft plastics forum.
He used bondo to mold lead. Might be worth a PM to Rottweiler to find out more information. Invite him to post in this thread with his experiences.

Dave

[Swede]

I would of used rtv rubber for hot molding
the mold will last 1000s of casts