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Location: St. John, Indiana | After you guys add weight to a crankbait or glider how are you patching the hole over the lead? |
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| Loctite multi-purpose epoxy putty. Also use it to fix small chips or holes for eyes that weren't quite even or otherwise messed up. |
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Location: PA | I pour my lead in the hole filling it just over the top. Hit it on the belt/disc sander or file it to take off the acsess. No filling or finish work to be done prime and paint. |
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| I use lead sinkers and 3/8" flat top wooden plugs. drill to a depth just under total height of plug and sinker combined. Then add sinker then glue then plugs leaving about 1/16 of plug exposed then sand then exposed plugs to be smooth with bottom of bait. quick easy and provides great weight and balance consistency on each bait. |
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| I also use the 2 -part epoxy putty. Easy to mix dries hard and sandable. |
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| I use 'Wood Epox' made by Abatron. It's a two-part wood filler and epoxy and it is the toughest stuff that I've ever seen. Once I mixed too much and rolled it into a ball and let it harden over night. It took some serious hits from a hammer just to start to break it apart. It's a two-part 50/50 mix, and I just fill the holes like I would with putty and then touch up the blanks the next day. The last time that I used it, I added a couple of big spoonfuls of sawdust to the mix. Same sawdust from the blanks that I cut out and drilled. I have a large supply of very soft pure lead from my years of working underground for the Water Department, so I made hundreds and hundreds of barrel sinkers with no holes running through them and that's what I use to weight my lures. I have 2" long screw eyes that I run through some sample sinkers and have them made in 1/4, 1/2 and even some 3/4 ounce sizes, so when I need to balance gliders, I just screw the weighted screw eyes into the blank until I get the glider bodies to sink just below the surface and they stay there, the weight of the hooks makes them sink. When they are weighted perfectly, the glider will stop sinking when the hooks hit the bottom of the tank and the body seems to hover right there. Too much info.......I type like I talk sometimes. Anyway, check out the Abatron site, they have lots of stuff that is very useful to anybody who works with wood. They even have stuff to fix cracks in your basement!
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Location: Okoboji | west systems 2 part epoxy with a filler, mix it and fill, bulletproof.
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| I have had best luck with smooth Bondo for cars ...it doesnt shrink like some of the other stuff . |
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