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| I am taking apart some old bucktails and want to reuse some of the components. Some of the lead and the brass bodies have oxidation on them. Can I remove it by soaking them in a cola? Or are there better suggestions?
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Location: Twin Cities, MN | Personally, I just leave the old parts, as is for the bucktails I chop up.
I only swap out the shaft, hook, split ring, and clevis if needed.
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| What about swapping blades or is that a pain in the rear? |
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Location: With my son on the water | I looked this one up on the net and got back to make a paste of Vingar and Baking soda. This works because the acetic acid in the vinegar and the sodium in the baking soda works together to dissolve the tarnish. It is worth a try. You may want to wear glove, goggles, and do it out side  |
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Location: Twin Cities, MN | cave run legend - 2/26/2015 5:53 PM
What about swapping blades or is that a pain in the rear?
I don't think so, I swap out blades all the time to go with different tails depending on which lake I am fishing. |
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Location: Waukee, IA | The lead can just be left alone. If you want to shine up your brass use the baking soda/vinegar paste mentioned above or use a dremel tool to buff it. I actually have better luck with tarnished brass when fishing clear water. |
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Location: oswego, il | Tarnex works too. As far as replacing blades just make sure the blades you replace have enough spacing as to not tangle with the skirt on startup. |
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| I don't think that the shiny parts catch the fish. It's the motion and the vibration. I tie my own on cable, and I like to tie them in small sections and then I can cut them up and stack them differently for different patterns or make two short bucktails into one long one. Recycling works.
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Location: Pewaukee, WI | With regards to re-using old blades, that may not always be a good idea. Blades that are of a thinner thickness (.025 or less) are notorious for flexing or losing their original shape after heavy usage. This is less apt to occur with heavier gauge (.040) blades. |
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Reusing old bucktail parts