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Soft Plastic Bait Making => Color Cook Book => Topic started by: grayth on 02/13/14 14:06 UTC
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Hey well I just had to have the Thump Grub..and so just tried it out today with my version of Purple Smoky Haze
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4oz Plastic
1 drop X2 Black
1/8 teaspoon purple flake .15
1/8 silver holo flake .15
touch of violet hi lite
Troy
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Beautiful. I really like the tump grub
@bullfroglures
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Gray, I heard some Thumpin' so I had to look out the window! I saw a Candy Purple Cadillac! KoowEE! 8)
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Lol - ya I'm really liking this bait. Shoots amazingly easy
I'm guessing walleye are gonna love it - come on springtime
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Yeeaa, and I truly dig that mold. Every time someone posts pics or touches on a thread about it, I gotta fight it that much harder. Specks and Flounder wouldn't know how to act! I'm Watermelon with Envy, Sir.
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nice bait, I also like this, it would like to purchase for walleye fishing
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Very Nice
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Dandy mold. great color....
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Thanks - I was actually trying to make it more transparent to use as a belly color too but even though I used just a smidge of the hi lite it's too dark for a belly but works great as a single color - I love it as a single so in my attempt to make a belly color I found my purple haze lol
The action on this is very cool - rigging makes me think plain jig head, shaky head it's pretty darn cool
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I used just a smidge of the hi lite it's too dark for a belly but works great as a single color
I'd worry more about the purple glitter bleeding if you re-heat/re-melt the plastic than I would the hi lite. Add some raw plastic and a shot of stabilizer to a cup and tear up the remainder of the hard plastic to add to it and heat it up in 20 second increments. That helps to lighten it up a little but you'll get a "shadow color", a bluish stain, other than from the black regardless. That comes from the purple glitter.
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Thanks I think next time I try this for a belly ill just leave out the hi lite - the 1 drop of black made a hell of a sweet smoke
But since I only have single molds and the 4oz injector reheating lots for sure as is... Now I just squirt in the heat stabilizer rather then count drops lol
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...."Now I just squirt in the heat stabilizer rather then count drops lol"....
Now you have the hang of it.
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If you squirt in heat stabilizer, how much are you guessing you use per gallon of plastic?
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Couldn't say a quick shot is all I do so far and the bottle is still quite full
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Bugpac.....I wouldn't treat a gallon of plastic with stabilizer. Mostly using stabilizer is trial and error and ends up a balancing act between cooking time, volume of plastic, heat range of the cooking unit. I'd guess that most hobby guys aren't adding stabilizer to more than a cup of plastic at a time. Long-term heating or re-heat/re-melt offers some challenges too. Stabilizer is in all plastic out of the jug or box but the initial cooking cooks it out. Stabilizer is a constantly needed addition, not a one time thing. Clear or transparent colors call for more stabilizer use than solids or opaque colors.
Hobby injectors use it more often than commercial or production injectors.
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Bugpac.....I wouldn't treat a gallon of plastic with stabilizer. Mostly using stabilizer is trial and error and ends up a balancing act between cooking time, volume of plastic, heat range of the cooking unit. I'd guess that most hobby guys aren't adding stabilizer to more than a cup of plastic at a time. Long-term heating or re-heat/re-melt offers some challenges too. Stabilizer is in all plastic out of the jug or box but the initial cooking cooks it out. Stabilizer is a constantly needed addition, not a one time thing. Clear or transparent colors call for more stabilizer use than solids or opaque colors.
Hobby injectors use it more often than commercial or production injectors.
I was curious more on how much stabilizer you were using total per gallon overall. Do you restock stabil every order of fresh plastic.
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I'm mostly through a gallon of plastic, barely used any stabilizer at all. It last awhile since you don't add a lot at a time. If I counted drops it would probably be 1-3 drops per oz on light colored fresh and almost all reheats. 1 bottle should get me through several gallons of plastic I would expect.
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For a 12 oz. mix, I'll fill a 1/4 TSP spoon full, add about 1/3-1/2 of that spoon to the virgin liquid (un-necessary), I'll cook the batch and after I make the 2nd shot, I'm looking for the level of "smoke" because the smoke is the stabilizer "evaporating" off. After about the 2nd shot, I need to add a little heat anyway, so I'll add a few drops off of the spoon that's holding the stabilizer, mix it in as the heat comes back up. This is actually more stabilizer than is needed, but it's just what I do...and it leaves a bit of stabilizer in the scraps for remelting.
The Softer my plastic is (Soft), the less heat is needed to keep the mix at Working Viscosity, so I can tend to use a little less stabilizer using Soft...using Hard/Saltwater, I'll use a little more stabilizer (as in, a few more drops) because it takes a little more heat to keep it the same Viscosity as Regular and Soft...and yes it's linear, Regular/Medium is between Soft and Hard in the amount of heat that's needed to maintain the same Working Viscosity.
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I get stabilizer by the pint and will add a bunch to light colors before cooking, after the initial the initial cooking is done and before the cup sets up, and every time the plastic gets zapped to re-heat.
Jerry and the crew saw how much I use in a small cup of color during the get-together. Generally I figure about a 5 ounce bottle for a 2.5 gallon box of plastic, but probably more than 5 ounces.
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Roger on'nat, Mr. Tom. I recently ordered 2 Pints of Stabilizer, 1 for me and 1 for my wife. It is an utterly essential component to the Remelter.
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MAN, is there a Thread Killer of the Month Award?! 'Cuz I KNOW I'd win that one! What would the prize be? $50 added to Your next order?
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I was just about to ask if your wife was unstable Gary. But I won't.
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Ya know, Mr. Tom, You may be onto something...
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Crank it up, Mr. Gray! We're ridin' to the lake!!!