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Soft Plastic Bait Making => Color Cook Book => Topic started by: floridagrimp on 02/19/13 12:19 UTC
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* for spike-it's nite glo powder or any other brand (white w/kind of greenish tint)??
*also, the UV liquid, anyone know how much do you add to your pours??
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On the powder, I'd start with about 1/2 tsp in an 8 ounce batch of clear plastic. If you add it to colored plastic think about about adding a bit more. Mix the 1/2 tsp per 8 and put a drop on the back of a mold and hit it with a charger to see how it does in the dark. Adjust from there.
The uv plastic additive I use about 10 to 12 drops in clear or light, transparent colors and in white, oystershell or pearl.
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Hey Tom ...thanks for your tips ..I did as you suggested and it worked great .... So Florida Tom is steering you in the right direction !!!!
Thanks again
EZ
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Just don't sneeze into or spill the glow powder. If you do your life will be on the eeire side for a long, long time....experience here.
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Thanks ctom, I love to fish niteglo...day, night, doesn't matter. You can put different amounts to create the amount of glo you want.
*** I like to load 'em up..you know it can help ships navigate safely into harbor with your bait as a guide in fog, or rough weather conditions...wait, that's just not right.
Never thrown the UV product...but trust me, it's hot (selling) at the wholesale level..
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Ctom, should read your post earlier about "not sniffing" around the niteglo...I snorted about a teaspoon thinking it might "light up the night" w/ the wife 8), if u catch my drift..I'll report back tomorrow with results...in code of course. :o
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Now I have coffee running down my monitor screen.
Well? Did it help you see what you were getting into? Nochest pains today I hope?
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No chest pains...try and do 45 minutes of cardio at gym a day...so that's not an issue...sometimes you just have to "stir things up'..thought glo powder might be the vehicle. Backfired, as she thought she was sleeping with a ghost as I lit up room all night!!
Talking about nite glo..it does take quite a bit (I am pouring alot of it). I need to get it in larger quatities instead of by the pound. does it work in remelts w/dark colors??
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I've done the remelt with plastics having glow in them but I don't do any plastic that is dark with glow. Too much light gets blocked to really charge the depths of the bait up and thats what gives the glow baits their umph.
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How 'bout Glow with Flake and/or a little HiLite Powder or Pearl Powder? ...sparingly, of course...
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Glo, UV and other speciality type powders/colorants are expensive. I need to get source for buying mucho niteglo...don't know how big an item UV is going to be yet...developing...
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Actually Gary in a transparent plastic some flake, not tons, might help to a degree by reflecting light given off by the glow pigment from within. Hi lite andd pearls might bend the light given off a bit, but there I haven't done anything and can't say one way or the other.