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Musky Glenn

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  1. I recently had a need for a large tube to dip large musky size tube baits. I had a friend to weld a bottom plate onto a short section of metal tail pipe material. I would heat the plastisol in a micro wave and pour into tail pipe and do my dipping. If you spray the inside of the tailpipe with Pam the plastic will come right out to remelt again.

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  2. I just noticed there are fifteen people on this forum as I type. That is the largest crowd I have been in for two weeks. We (McDowell County, NC) had our first two cases of the virus reported today. Stay safe.

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  3. The one I use doesn't lock and so far I am very satisfied with it. I did push the end off one time when emptying it. I now know how little pressure it takes to empty and haven't pushed it off again.

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  4. Maybe I don't understand McCoy's problem, but it seems to me he is not injecting hot enough if it is cooling down enough to cause a build up. My guess is he is not injecting at 350 degrees or he is picking up some "still unmelted used plastic" from bottom of liquid container. Why is 350 to hot, that is where I inject all the time. Thanks for any info.

  5. I just question the need to lock the tip to cylinder. I have pushed the end off one time into the pyrex cup when emptying the injector. Not a problem to get out of hot plastic and learned how little pressure it takes to empty injector. Haven't had it happen again. I used long needle nose pliers to retrieve tip from plastic. Good luck. I filed a small slot in the end of the cylinder for a screw driver to fit so that I could force the tip off of cylinder.

     

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  6. Mark, Welcome to the world of Musky fishing. I once made a copy of a heavy musky lure out of plastic to reduce weight in casting. I made the lure hollow so it would fill up with water when in the water then immediately drain the water out for casting. Principle worked great but I just couldn't get the action exactly like I wanted.

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  7. Upon using my tailpipe tube for an extended period of time I learned of several draw backs. First, the diameter may be to small as plastic tends to solidify to the sides of the pipe giving less room for dipping. Any touching of the sides causes terrible deformity to the dipped tube. Second, the best way is to let the dipped plastic cool between dips which also causes the plastic in the tube to harden also. This means cleaning out the pipe and remelting the plastic. It is an easy cleanup but still time consuming. Some type of controllable heat source might be an answer but I suspect controlling it would be hard as you only have a small temp window from approx. 315-375 degrees and I suspect this would cause hotter temps on bottom which would mean some type of stirring mechanism. It does make a nice product at a high cost of labor. In my situation it took two cups of plastic to fill pipe to working depth but it only took 1/4 cup to make the tube. I am a one man operation making for my self so two cups of each color takes more plastic than I want to commit to a project. I had thought about making all of them white then dipping in dye for what ever color I want.

  8. 2.5 " tail pipe material with a plate welded on one end makes a good place to hold liquid plastic for dipping musky size tubes. The tube baits are 8" by 1.5". Spray Pam inside of pipe to help in release of plastic for clean up. I do not sell lures. I just thought this might help someone else.

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  9. I have run number 8 willow leaf blades on one ounce musky spinner baits with out any problem. With that large a blade I suspect you may be opening the split ring to much and stretching it open to far. I usually run 6 and 8 size together and slow roll most of the time. The problem with the deep cup is they create such a harder pull which makes them run shallower.  I believe the Musky Shop sells a Mogambo grub that may fill your need and save you hundreds on molds. Good luck

     

  10. Mine don't have the pins but I have only pushed the end off one time and it didn't fall into the plastic because the plastic , around the outside where I had dipped, held it together. I just applied to much pressure when emptying after making a pour. I found my tips fit a little tight so I filed a notch into the end of the tube so I could open them with a straight screw driver.

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