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| If the paint is starting to come off some of my cowgirl blades, how do I re paint them? Can I just use spray paint? Thanks!
Edited by 50"skie 5/2/2009 9:09 PM
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Location: Pelican Rapids, MN | Get new blades and rebuild. If it is just small chips and tooth scratches, don't mind it, but if over 50% of the blade is bare , then I'd rebuild, because chances are the blades are cupped from wear and the bait will be back to optimal performance with a new set!
Edited by Jsondag 5/3/2009 1:19 AM
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| I always re build my bucktails, but I cant with the DC-10 or a Cowgirl because of the shrink wrap, how do you get that stuff off? |
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Location: Mt. Zion, IL | 50"skie - 5/3/2009 9:06 AM
I always re build my bucktails, but I cant with the DC-10 or a Cowgirl because of the shrink wrap, how do you get that stuff off?
carefully slit it with a knife or use fingernail clippers. |
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Location: Pelican Rapids, MN | I have teeth like a great white, I usually gnaw it off. |
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Location: Oswego, IL | Exacto Knife it off. |
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Location: SE Wisconsin | No hard feelings to James of Tackle Industries or TackleBootie (which one is it?), but I threw a new Dominatrix yesterday and after my first cast half of one of the 10's was completely chipped off in one flake. They look like their painted well and I realize it must have just been a fluke, but now I need to do something about it. Somebody get to how to efficiently paint metal that won't chip off so easy. |
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Location: The Yahara Chain | Sam Ubl - 5/15/2009 12:15 PM
No hard feelings to James of Tackle Industries or TackleBootie (which one is it?), but I threw a new Dominatrix yesterday and after my first cast half of one of the 10's was completely chipped off in one flake. They look like their painted well and I realize it must have just been a fluke, but now I need to do something about it. Somebody get to how to efficiently paint metal that won't chip off so easy.
It is the nature of the beast when you are throwing double 10's. I have some that couldn't be painted better than they are, they eventually chip. The blades are constantly banging against each other and the lure body.
In your example it sounds like something wasn't done properly in the painting process for everything to come off so quickly and easily. But painted blades will all eventually chip when throwing big double blades. IMO the fish don't care if it is chipped or not. |
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| You can scuff them up with sandpaper before you repaint them, but they're going to chip and peel no matter what you do. Usually by the time the paint is nearly gone, so is the hair, and the wire is all mangled anyway, so I just replace them. |
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re-paint blades?