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| If the tail rips of of your bulldawg can you use regular old super glue to repair it. I know you can melt it but I don't like doing that and it dosent always work.
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| If you are careful to melt it slowly and evenly without setting it on fire, you can do pretty well with a lighter. |
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Location: Irvine, KY | I havent picked any up yet, but a lot of people on this board have reccomended Mend-it |
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Location: SE Wisconsin | To answer your question, I don't know of any epoxy that would effectively work other than 2-part epoxy that's use guidelines are for rubber, plastic, etc. That won't help you in the boat though, so here's what I do.
Tell you what. I use a wind-proof torch lighter that I picked up at the check out counter somewhere along the lines and it works awesome! One of the lakes I frequent is notorious for catching pike on Bulldawgs I've come to learn and everytime one comes to the boat, unless it's a pig, this pops into my line of
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Point is, I always have that torch lighter to mend my dawgs back up. . . I could be drizzling, windy or perfectly still and that thing always kicks out a steady blue flame. At home I use a 9" coleman lighter. You could get the same effect with a candle lighter. When I'm in the comfort of the indoors, burning my fingers hurts a lot more than when I'm in a boat with one thing on my mind.
Edited by Sam Ubl 4/6/2009 1:05 PM
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Location: Twin Cities | Chordless soldering iron. No fuss, no mess, no flames, no glue. |
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Location: Land of the Musky | Another vote for the wind-proof torch lighter. I sell the Mend-It and it works great if you have a littel time adn can let the lure site for 10-15 minutes but again, the wind-proof torch lighter is what you need in the boat. Not as pretty as the MendIt will make the fix but what does a musky hauling in at 30mph care 
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| cordless soldering iron.
windproof torch works well too but the soldering iron is better imo. |
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Location: Musky Tackle Online, MN | I'm not a "repair it in the boat" guy. That's time spent without a lure in the water, which means fewer fish in the boat. I tried Mend-It last year and was sold on the stuff immediately. I had a rubber swimbait that I thought was way beyond repair. When I was done it looked pretty much as good as new. Easy to use and does a great job.
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Location: Land of the Musky | Good thing about MendIt is that you can drip it onto the shredded part of a swimbait and walk away. 15 minutes later its good to go and all the shreds are welded back together. You can't fix those with a torch but that is a home fix IMO not a boat fix. |
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Location: Grand Rapids MN | I've always had the torch lighter in the boat for repairs but I'll have to pick up some Mend-It for a more complete repairs.
One piece of advice I can offer is if you catch a little 'skie or pike allow the fish to stay under the surface until ready to do a quick release. Once you bring them up to the surface they thrash more and can really do a number on your rubber baits. Seems to help some with damage when I started doing that a few years back. |
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Location: Nowheresville, MN | Mend-It is THE way to go. Just bought two more bottles in case I lose one. IMO, If you have to wait more than 3 minutes you are putting too much on. I have found less is definetely more with this stuff. As far as fixing the dawg at home because you don't want to wait...don't you have more than one dawg?  |
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| I definetly have more than one but I won't give up my LUKY dawg. Dosent matter how many times it rips. |
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Location: syracuse indiana | i use a knife and a small torch, and also i have used a ironizer its like a small soldering gun but th size odf a pen.. darn with i knew where i can find another one of them.. that was the best for fixxing rubber baits....bill |
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Location: Ontario, California | All methods mentioned will work. Just don't do it in the truck on the way to the lake... look up to see a dear and have some plastisol drip on your finger causing your skin to melt away before your eyes and wimper like a little girl.
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