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That’s a shame as I told you above, they will work on plastic tubesOriginally Posted by mikey16335
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what do you need to get started out with soft plastics?
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what do you need to start making theses?
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Besides the Mold, About how much cash do you need to invest to make a multi-color panfish bait and what would a person need??
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You’re gonna need a mold. Also, you need a syringe or a injector when you need a plastic either a gallon or 5 gallons then you need the colors just to get started around 2 to 300 bucks or more depending on how much you want to spend on a Mold 20 cavities are running over 100 bucks now depending on the injectors that you get they are about 85 or so. A gallon of plastic is about 40 bucks the colors depending on how many ounces you’re by about eight dollars or 4 ounces.
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Please note getting into making plastics is very addictive I know I started out with one know we have a bout 150 and I just bought two more. I have to be crazy anyway my wife thinks I’m crazy.
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Bob,
Why did my hot plastic in the pyrex cup explode when it was accidentally set on a fish hook? I still have nightmares of when that happened to me. Loretta told me then to sell my microwave and stop making lures. Besides I had enough to last a while. I gave away three molds and my microwave. I kept a few.
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how about one color baits?
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I might get sold it like to be that you have either water or some other foreign matter in the Pyrex cup when you put it in the microwave did you put a Jig hook in the plastic when you put it in the microwave if you did that’s why do you exploded do not put any metal in the microwave. Sometimes are glitter will burn up in the bottom of the Pyrex cup. I have burnt holes right through the glass that’s why I don’t like to use a lot of silver glitter if you do heated up real slowly and stir. Usually I throw it out in the garbage when I get through , with any of the silver glitter in it do not put hot Pyrex cups on a cold surface especially metal always put it on a wooden table top or something like in the plastic form. I’ve been vert many times by my own stupidity, but I’ve been really fortunate about not having stuff explode in the microwave. I’ve had a few Pyrex cups break or split , one thing you want to make darn sure that you do not have any water around your plastic. It could be real dangerous.
