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| Going to start making my own spinner baits.
Where is a good place to buy lead.
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| Good luck finding the old soft lead anymore, but if you are using it for spinnerbaits, that should be OK.
Search lead ingots. I've seen the at www.barlowsfishingtackle.com
I squandered a bunch of old water services that we replaced when I was still working. It's old pure lead. Go talk to the guys at your local water department if you have one. Usually a few cases of beer will keep you on their "lead list".
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| Thanks Beaver all kinds on ebay
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| Yeah, one guy on ebay is even selling pre-poured weights that you drill the holes for and drop these in. I don't know what they charge for shipping, because lead is concidered to be hazardous. Except in California where it's concidered to be a death bomb, kinda like Kryptonite. |
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| I always recommend that people look for lead at their local junk yard. You ask them for soft plumbing lead, and you might get lead pipes, or sometimes lead "pucks" that sort of look like hockey pucks. Those are normally the purest lead and the easiest to use. Don't make the mistake of trying to use wheel weights, because they have a lot of impurities and don't pour as well, unless you are making big sinkers out of them.  |
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| Your local outdoors store (my fleet farm) sells lead straps for weighting duck decoys. They are very soft and can be melted down easily. I've also used small steel dowel pins (actually what I prefer) they come in all kinds of diameters and lengths so all you need to do is drill holes, plug them in, and putty over. Can be found at Fastenal or other parts stores. |
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| any plumbing supply house will have it. |
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| I've found the best material to weight lures. I'm not sure of the availability as I got a chunk of it from work. It is a metal called "silium" (not sure on the spelling) but it has a very low melting point (120 degrees). With the last baits I made, I drilled a pocket for the wieght and melted the silium right into the bait using a lighter. It is also much heavier than lead and super easy to work with. Like I said, I simply held the piece of metal in my hand, putting a lighter to the other side was able to drip it right into my weight pocket. Not sure where you could buy it but it is the best stuff I've ever used for weighting. Hands down. |
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| The stuff is called psyllium and sounds like it may be hard to find. Luckily for me, we use it at work to make pours. |
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Hi All,
I don't mean to stir things up (too much) but shouldn't we be looking at non-toxic lead alternatives ? I'd like to hear your views. |
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| Steel dowel pins really work nice. Not as heavy as lead but can be purchased in all diameters and lengths. I made a couple jerkbaits already this fall using a 3/8" round x 1/2" long dowel pin an inch from each end of the bait. 100% non-toxic. When weighting baits like the glidebaits I've made, I always drill into the wood then plug in the weight and epoxy over. I'm sure most people do it this way also which eliminates the chance of the weight falling out - therefore, the lead is really not a threat in any way. Unless you lose the bait, and even then and it would take quite a while to deteriorate and leave toxic deposits. I honestly don't use lead anyways but am not really concerned about the effects of others using it either. |
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