corey@12mile

I will tinker with it later today if time permits... got this thing called fishing to do shortly. I will just be painting jigs for the time being. This fluid bed was basically a test to see if I could actually get something working. I have been registered and lurking for a few years now and have pretty much read the answers to all my questions up to the point of tuning the air flow. I appreciate all the help everyone has given. I will post my results later. Thanks, Corey

I plugged it in last night to show a friend and interestingly enough, the whole cup of powder started to rise without volcano's. I had to shut it down as I thought I was going to have a mess. Is there a recommended amount of powder to have in the cup? My cup is 2" S40 PVC and 3.5" tall. I pretty much dumped a 2oz container of powder in and it filled the cup about half way. Tomorrow I am going to scoop out half the powder and then fire it up again to see what happens. If you see a picture of someone with a red powder face resembling hellboy, I have obviously had an incident. Thanks guys, cd.

I just built a fluid bed based on various things I have read here. I haven't seen any of the tutorials that people have been PM'ing around. I have used 2" PVC and I have a smaller air pump for it. The problem I am having is the air seems to be coming up through the powder in small tunnels creating craters on the top and making the powder come out of the cup. It's not an explosive type cloud coming out, but more of a mist. I do have a valve inline with the air pump and it doesn't help when I lower the air flow, it just makes the powder all settle down. If anyone has any ideas on how I can get a better, more even air flow through the cup to fluidize the powder I would appreciate it. I am using a brown paper bag for the cup bottom. Thanks, Corey

Hey peoples... just saying a quick hello. I have a Lee leadpot and a few molds, and was searching for a site like this. Great info and none of the political BS found on most forums. A couple of quick questions... Where to buy stuff to make plastics in Canada? Real Pro doesn't have anything, and B&B doesn't have much of a website, so I won't be seeing if they have anything until the spring fishing show. I am thinking about having a (sorta) luremaking party... and tips, thoughts or suggestions? I fish with a few different groups of guys, and I have invited most of them over. Just trying to figure out what to get, and how to do things... I am not too concerned over buying a bunch of the supplies and letting people have stuff for free, but how do you politely ask for people to contribute for supplies? I have 8 2oz jars of powder paint, and what I was thinking was asking people to buy 1 jar of powder paint in a color that I don't have, and then they have use of all the colors I have. I figure we won't individually make enough stuff to warrant everyone buying all their own paint, but instead if everybody picks up a new color, then we can all use the various colors. Same thing with hooks, maybe I can ask each person to pickup a 100 pack of hooks each in various sizes so that we can all end up with a variety. I am sure that a few people have done this, a few times now. If you guys can help me out with some ideas, it would be much appreciated. FWIW, I am plannning to do this 1 week after our spring fishing show, so that people who are coming have a chance to get some of the supplies they need for whatever they want to make. Thanks, Corey