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  1. 21 hours ago, Kaona said:

    I ordered an aluminum trick worm mold on August 2nd and it arrived on the 22nd.  Sweet mold. Shoots straight and lams perfectly. This is the closest mold I've seen to an actual zoom trick worm.

    Thanks for this. Were they responsive to you? this is strange. so either they ignore my e-mails or aren't getting them.

  2. On 6/24/2022 at 4:08 PM, C0MRAD said:

    Update:  I received my order yesterday.  I assumed I would never get it and the money was gone.  I wasn't too concerned about it, getting invaded by Russia is a valid excuse to not fulfill orders.  I was very surprised when I found the box on my doorstep.  I ran all 3 aluminum molds today and they shot perfect.

    I might place another order just to help the cause.

    I see this was in late June which is promising, but I've tried to reach them via e-mail around 5 separate times and never get a response. Does anyone know if they have closed up shop due to the war? thanks

  3. 4 hours ago, hpssports said:

    Right now we're doing the same as you. We have multiple work stations set up with presto pots & mixers going all at once. Our problem is with laminate colors. We have some production molds that take 20+ ounces to shoot. Shooting laminates with our custom injectors with the presto pots is a pain. We're hoping with the Hot Runner Machine we can keep it fed with plastic running in the presto pots & be able to shoot the larger production molds a lot easier. Other than that, the presto pots with mixers still work great for solid colors.

    yah, I see the "stir mix alot" system offered as well, do you have these auto stirrers w/o the lids? I've debated getting these but my issues are the following:

    1. If I have prior plastic I"m throwing in to reheat which is solid how well do the mixers stir this plastic with liquid plastisol together?

    2. can you regulate the speed of the stirrer? when I'm going into draw up the plastic will the blades clank and hit the injectors, or do I have to shut the stirrers off each time?

    3. Do you own the closed lid "stir mix alot" system? my concern with those is how do they shoot laminates? seems like the bass tackle injectors wouldn't reach to grab plastic out of each pot when they are next to each other based on where the holes are located.

     I still stir by hand before each shoot

  4. 2 hours ago, hpssports said:

    Don't know about the Jacobs machine but we have a modified two color Hot Runner on order from www.hotrunnermachines.com

    I looked at your machine, very similar. my biggest question with these is, is there a faster method to transition to another color than, turning off hte machine, allowing the plastisol to cool, cleaning it all out, poring in your next batch of plastisol/heating mixing dye/glitter, etc.. and shooting? right now I have multiple presto pots where I will have 4-5 diff colors heating and I just move between each of them and shoot those colors into the molds they goto. So is can I purchase or do you have a separate method to purchase the plastisol containers and get those pre-heating with other colors while I'm shooting a color in the machine?

  5. Anyone know how to make the appendages in baits opaque or less translucent when held up to light ? Is it just using more dye ? I usually use about 40 drops per cup. Or is there some other additive I can put in the plastic to achieve this ?

  6. 3 hours ago, SlowFISH said:

    +1 on this.... I like/make baits with alot of small appendages - trying to keep them "straight" or in the desired shape/location kills me.  I'm convinced the reason 1/2 the market is worms and the other 1/2 use thick sections in arms/legs is to not have to deal with bending/deformation in bags - the only real exceptions I see are swimbaits that literally cradle each bait to keep it perfect.

    J.

    yep, yep, great points. If I could afford clamshells I would, ha, but I also wouldn't be on here talking to yall if I was at that point :). I've got creatures, worms, swimbaits primarily and yah I'm going to be concerned about storing the swimbaits particularly, but honestly I haven't had a single complaint thus far in shipping my swimbaits in bags which will bend the tails and business is good. So people must not care as much as we think or have come to accept a level of deformation in the baits, and the bass must not Right now I just shoot, cure, and bag, so I shoot on demand which is wearing on me. Hopefully the inventory storage will work. 

  7. I'm doing some experiments with morton sun salt. It's super cheap $11.49 on instacart for a 50lb bag. I powderized it and this was a no go as has been said here, so I'll see if I can make it a littler finer than it is and see if this works.

  8. I'm still figuring out the salt situation as well. the prices for salt from the bait supply companies like mf and lureworks are way over priced. I got a 50lb bag of morton salt for $11.49 and it wasn't fine enough so I ran it through a blender which made it like a powder substance, but I'm still not convinced this was the right technique to make it smaller and I think powderizing the salt is thinning it out too much, since it started to clump on me. I'm going to try and use a different blender and blend it less to see if I can make the salt crystals smaller but not powder. as for color, making black/blue definately was not as black as compared to other vendors baits when I compared them side by side, and this was after salt was added. before the salt they were just as black as any other bait makers, so the salt is definitely changing the color.

  9. So where did this post end as to what we should all do? Is it just use this stuff at yur own risk? I use deadon plastix and if I heat to over 350 consistently I get more fumes but even where I shoot around 310-320 I still can smell it if I don't wear a respirator. So if I do this for the next 30 years will I get major cancer and die from the hobby? whats the final answer?

  10. 21 hours ago, SlowFISH said:

    I don't use salt often - but yes it does keep salt suspended.....as well as glitter.

    The paddle in your presto should not go full diameter - I made mine slightly offset of center and if a diameter that I could leave my injector in the presto with the blades spinning.  So the stirring system never shuts off once I fire it up.

    Keep the the injector in the plastic/presto keeps it hot and ready for the next shot... I never have to remove the cap(s) once i start to clean out any cold plugs as the heat in the presto keeps the injector 'clean".... single or dual injector all the same.

     

     J.

     

    What about cleaning out the presto pot do you have to remove the stirring assembly and the wooden board mounted on the top each time or is there a simpler method? 

    can you send me the links for buying the paddle stirrers you guys use? thanks

  11. I've been using the presto pots now for a few weeks and I've been stirring right before I shoot. although this isn't ideal and I want to advance into what is described here in this thread I'm still working out the pros/cons .

     

    When using salt does the auto stirring paddle keep this suspended as well? And when you draw up the plastic with a dual injector using 2 pots do you have to shutdown the auto stirring paddles? thanks

  12. I got into soft plastics about 3 months ago and never realized how much this stuff sells. I've got a day job that pays well but it sucks. I'm trying to get some advice from others who found a way to do this for a living and what their thoughts are on the other side. Pros/Cons, lessons learned of running a small bait business

     

    thanks

  13. On 1/5/2021 at 8:12 PM, Frank said:

    And remember that is a 9 year old video. Things for me have changed. I have been using something I made years ago but never made a video of it. Soon I will make a video of it and you will see all that I have learned over the years from actually doing it. It’s simple to use and easy to fix if needed. And uses something about 3000 of you already have. 

    Please tell, Frank.

  14. There are definitely some different styles here with regards to presto pots and if you should auto stir or not. Frank here as you can see just stirs occasionally, no auto stirrer, where as others construct these fancy auto stirrers. Why go through all the work on an auto stirrer if it's not needed is my question. thanks

  15. 1 hour ago, Travis said:

    The stirrers are really easy to make and anyone capable of injecting soft plastics should have the ability to make one if they want.

    It doesn't have to be too difficult.   I still use the first one I built many years ago and it is about as simple as it gets.  Poplar board used to span the presto pot and the face mount gear motor bolted on.  I found a piece of galvanized steel and cut a stir paddle and bent into the poor design below.  Under a 100 bucks (probably 75) for the stirring assembly. As pictured It worked just fine and kept glitter suspended but did switch out to a  4 bladed paddle made my a member on the site.

     

     

     

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    how many RPM does the stirring motor need to be? will this work?

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/US-Stove-6039HF-6220-6500-Agitator-Stir-Drive-Motor-1-RPM-80488-PH-CCW1H/282631439769?hash=item41ce258599:g:4GAAAOSwgy5Zk2q0

  16. 43 minutes ago, bryanmc said:

    There was a guy that posted in the classifieds a while ago that he was making and selling them.  Might try a search in there to find it.

    *edit*  Found the link.

    http://www.tackleunderground.com/community/classifieds/for-sale_25/presto-pot-mixer-r2136/

    Yah, honestly I didn't realize how easy it would be to sell baits. It feels like stealing candy from a baby. I'm at a point where I gotta free up time by scaling to meet up with the demand to not allow it to consume all my free time. thanks for this. I'll post the link to lurecraft who does his distribution now.

     

    https://www.lurecraft.com/Hot-Runner-Plastic-Pot-Stirrer/productinfo/2X186/

  17. 2 hours ago, Frank said:

    I have found that deep fryers have a thin lining so heat transfer is fast. Heat will go full on and stop way after the desired temp. With oil this is fine but not for plastic. The presto pot on the other hand is a cooker with a much thicker pot that distributes heat much slower and more even. For years I have worked on a way to beat the presto pots. But keep using them. For 30 dollars it’s hard to beat the presto pot. Get one then get a gear motor for stirring mount it and use it for years without an issue. Anything else is just a waste of time for that amount of money. 

    https://www.amazon.com/Presto-Kitchen-Kettle-Multi-Cooker-Steamer/dp/B002JM202I/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=presto%2Bpot&qid=1609702887&sr=8-1&th=1

    So this gear motor for stirring. where do you buy it? this seems to be the missing link in the puzzle from all my reading. this seems to be an item that people mckgyver a lot and it requires much more "technical knowledge" to assemble/create than I have.

  18. I'm curious with all of these answers were the baits stored in plastic bags putting pressure on the tail rudder in an awkward way and still didn't separate? I have to use oil in many of my molds to keep the baits shiny, when I remove them I cure em for a day and put them in plastics bags and have had custom complaints of tails separating. I'm wondering if perhaps the oil and the cure time being only 1 day may be a factor. 

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