Clean Hook Eyes With Powder Paint

I cannot stand it when paint gets on the hook eye. Uggghhhh....

I tried shrink wrap and it works but sometimes it doesn’t pull free, rather breaks in half and leaves a mess.

A few years back I had ordered some clear tubing for my salt water rigs and decided to try it for painting jigs. Works great.

I cut it with scissors and the tubes fit very nicely over the hook eye and stay in place nicely on almost all of my sizes. The #6 hook is a tad loose though, as would be other smaller sizes. However, I found that used tubes fit size #6 just fine. The heat shrunk the tube some I imagine.

These survive the heat gun, the dip and the oven for when I am doing a two part bake adventure. Pull it out of oven and re dip.

Anyways I think I got it off Amazon and it wasn’t much for a big winding of it. The lettering down the sides says:

SURETHANE PUR RTE 1/8 (1/16” x 1/8”) MAX WP 240 PSI MADE IN USA

Or something close to that as letters are tiny tiny. I think it is used for drink machines or something.




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OK....I looked again after all these years and it is called Surethane Tubing. My size is 1/8 (1/16” x 1/8”).

Just do a search for it as I don’t think it is on Amazon after all.

The tubing slips over the eye easily, stays put, survives the heat gun and oven, and after painting a simple twist and pull action removes it cleanly and surely leaving your hook eyes fresh and minty clean. :)

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And it is on Amazon at $18 for 100 feet. Thats enough to do ....let’s see.

Cutting it at 1/4” lengths.....single use....

0.25 x 4 x 12 x 100 = 1,200 jigs

Duhhhhh.....wrong math.

4,800 jigs

I use 3/16-3/32 heat shrink tubing like for electrical wiring. hold end and place over heat and shrink. The smallest it will shrink is just right for fitting over the eye of the hook after cooling.
I heat the jig holding it with forceps from the hook end, for 10-12 count over heat gun. Pull it out the heat slip on the shrunk shrink tube and swirl through the paint. Pull it off when I take the jig out of the paint. Have used the same piece of tube for 200 jigs, and still going. If it gets soft, take a short break and let it cool, and it's still good.

I pinch the eye with hemostats and then powder paint. After a few jigheads, just heat the hemostats and wipe on a damp cloth ;)
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I use to hold the jig by hand and heat then hold eye of jig with hemostats or angled needle nose pliers and then dip. Keeps hemostats/pliers clean of paint but eye of jighead not all the way. The trick is, and I haven’t seen this discussed here and I know I haven’t ever spilt the beans, if you want no paint on eye at all doing it this way, you need to take a dremel and dremel out a grove in the pliers so that the eye of the hook fits perfectly in pliers which will prevent any paint at all getting on eye.