Thread: I don't know how y'all do it....

..but this is how I spend a quiet and cold Saturday afternoon. I make it a reel maintenance day. I just do a few at a time until they are all done. Cleaned, oiled and some new line and they are ready for the season.

I do the same thing plus do a bunch of hand ties

I respooled four today myself. With Daiwa J Braid X8

I quit doing my reels several years ago. Send em out now. Been changing hooks out today on JDM trout lures. Many of them come with barbless hooks and while there are a few areas I fish that require barbless I only need a few. I’ve bought a lot of what they term as Area lures, and they all come with barbless hooks. So got to get all that done before I hit the river for trout. Spooling up new line on many reels. Also am trimming Trout Magnets to use with my JDM jig heads. The only drawback to using those, other than cost, is they all have pretty short shanks and hard to get a TM on one straight unless you take off 1 or 2 sections of the TM head. Also ordering more Meiho boxes to be better organized. Told my wife today I need to be ready….LOL.

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Worked on pouring my fist jig heads. 1/32 & 1/64 with #6 Owner hook, and 1/64 #8 hook.

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Glad to see that mold getting some use.

Nate.

Originally Posted by njones

Glad to see that mold getting some use.

Nate.

I've been having a good time with it. The whole process is a little addictive. Started with a 67 pound ingot. Just got done getting that processed into smaller fairly clean lead pieces. Still waiting for some supplies from Barlow tackle to Flux them a second time and cast into small ingots. Made a couple hundred so far, have about half those painted and baked. I'm going to need more hooks before long. Lol

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Originally Posted by zekepa

I've been having a good time with it. The whole process is a little addictive. Started with a 67 pound ingot. Just got done getting that processed into smaller fairly clean lead pieces. Still waiting for some supplies from Barlow tackle to Flux them a second time and cast into small ingots. Made a couple hundred so far, have about half those painted and baked. I'm going to need more hooks before long. Lol

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Unless you're pouring them to sell, what's the main purpose of going thru all the fluxing and purification rights ??

A long time ago I got a melting pot & insert jighead mold to make my own tubejig jigheads. I used tire weights & pieces of a lead pipe, skimmed off the floating slag with an old tablespoon, and poured my jigheads. They functioned just fine. Got a splitshot mold and used the same lead for them, but the "hard" lead made them very hard to close/open without the use of pliers ...

Originally Posted by CrappiePappy

Unless you're pouring them to sell, what's the main purpose of going thru all the fluxing and purification rights ??

Probably comes from past experience of not doing enough prep work and having it redo things. Going down the lead pouring road, almost every site I used talked about fluxing, so I decided I would do it, took some time to process a 67 lb ingot, but it wasn't difficult.
I kind of equate it to soldering either Electonics or plumbing, doing the prep work makes the actually soldering part fairly simple. I also don't think I'll end up making enough jigs to use the 60+ pounds of pure lead and 50+ pounds of plumbers solder, I have. Probably do some bullet casting with it also.

Those look really good.