04-28-2005, 10:51 AM
[cool][#0000ff]Glad to hear the youngun is "branching out". [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]By the way, the tire weights are cheap and okay for making large stuff, but if you ever get around to pouring smaller jigs and lures, you should use only 100% pure lead. Tire weights are an alloy of lead, antimony and sometimes other "hardening" metals. They melt at higher temps and harden faster when poured into molds. That means that you often do not get good cleanly formed jig heads on the smaller stuff.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I am attaching another one of my writeups, on pouring lead heads.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]By the way, for painting larger batches of larger jigs, you can spray paint them, one side at a time. However, that is wasteful, and I don't know if the good paints are even available in sprayers. Of course, if you have an air brush, you got it made.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]By the way, the tire weights are cheap and okay for making large stuff, but if you ever get around to pouring smaller jigs and lures, you should use only 100% pure lead. Tire weights are an alloy of lead, antimony and sometimes other "hardening" metals. They melt at higher temps and harden faster when poured into molds. That means that you often do not get good cleanly formed jig heads on the smaller stuff.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I am attaching another one of my writeups, on pouring lead heads.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]By the way, for painting larger batches of larger jigs, you can spray paint them, one side at a time. However, that is wasteful, and I don't know if the good paints are even available in sprayers. Of course, if you have an air brush, you got it made.[/#0000ff]
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