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| I have some lures that have a bit of wear. I don't want to throw them out so I will try to fix them. I want to reclear coat them. Any suggestion on what type of clear to use? Should I dip them, spray them or brush it on? I need something similar to my Magic Maker or Beaver Castor clear coat. Not real thick but durable. After putting on the clear should I hang them to dry or put them on some type of rotator for an even coat? How many coats should I apply? Any suggestion would help me out.
Edited by lunkermike 11/29/2006 7:36 PM
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| If it's a re-do for yourself, just wet sand them with 800 grit sandpaper and rinse and repeat....then just pour over some Envirotex Lite, making sure that every bit of the lure gets hit by some E-Tex, and let them hang and drip.
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| Has anyone ever tried clear coating suicks? If so has it helped reduce hook rash? Change the action? |
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| I've used spray-on Envirotex, and it helped a little. T'ing the hooks helps more.
I used regular E-Tex, but just brushed on one coat, and it didn't harm the action at all. |
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| Thanks for the tips but I don't know what E-Tex is. |
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Location: Minnesota | E-Tex is Epoxy. You can also get two part epoxy at Home Depot. $20 for enough to coat 100-150 suicks IMO. If you can remove the hooks do it. If they are not attached by split rings (old style) I used tape at the base of the hook to help "stiffen" and hold the hooks straight out away from teh bait to keep the hooks away from the drying epoxy. Big thing, clean your bait off well with alcohol. I did not do this on my first few and some surface oil really f-ed em up. Epoxy did not even coat those areas. Then hang them tail down to dry. You can cut/peel the epoxy off of the metal tail when your done. I did about 20 Suicks 2 years ago from my own tackle box and not one has been damaged since. The action is still true from my perspective. Had to readjust some tails but that was it.
Godd luck,
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Location: Minnesota | Here are a few on eBay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=016&sspagename=STR...
Not sure if you can see them well enough or not but, these were coated twice with epoxy. |
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| Here is the E-tex (Envirotex) http://www.eti-usa.com/consum/envtex/envlite.htm |
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Location: Hyvinkää, Finland, Europe | If you just want to use lacque try one component concrete lacque by dipping.
It gives hard cover and don't burn paints or orginal lacque.
Very popular here in Finland.
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Location: Chicago Western Suburbs | 4seasonangler - 11/29/2006 8:20 PM
Has anyone ever tried clear coating suicks? If so has it helped reduce hook rash? Change the action?
I rubberband my hooks on suicks and this prevents hook rash, and does
not hinder hookups with fish, since the small tiny rubberbands simply
break when a fish hits. By the way, two or three coats of epoxy does
wonders in making suicks run deeper and rise slower . . .
As far as clear coating, do not poor on the clear coat as you will be wasting
a ton of material this way. I brush mine on in thin coats and then rotate.
Usually apply three or four coats for a nice finish. Did go through some bad
batch issues this year with both envirotex and 2ton, but Todd at Phantom
helped me figure out what I was doing wrong. What a great guy. He is really
nice and loves to help out basement guys with advice and suggestions. Jed
and Nathan were always willing to let me bounce ideas off of them as well
and it was truly appreciated.
Regards, Ren
Edited by Ren 12/19/2006 11:32 PM
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