Pouring lead to make jigs.

[@stefanabt7901]

Hello from Germany! Because of the message of Your T shirt inside of the fluid bed video i´d like to give You some little Tips with lead pouring! ,-) The molds have to be absolutely hot specially with molds with inserts like the weedless jigs, so it is a good way to heat up the molds with setting them up to the melting pot but this is not hot enough. The best way to get them up the right temperature is when You turn the molt to the side and pour the cavity at the side full with lead, wait till it is hard! turn the mold and fill the other side. Do this without any inserts an hooks inside three times and put the ingots back to the pot. When you did this three times fill up the cavitys two to three times with lead but without any hook or insert inside. But be carefully secially molds with weedless isnserts can leak out lead. Now when the mold is really hot then put the hooks and inserts into the mold and pour the lead inside. If you do it that way each ore almost each hook would be perfect. Next tip dont take the hooks out of the mold wit griping it at the hook take the sprue and pull it out of the mold so you get it out better and You won´t scratch Your mold. You told that You like to sell some so you have to be fast in pouring so let the sprue on the jig untill You are ready with pouring just with weedless Jigs take the insert out. Next tip you said that the mold was too hot so it didn´t open very good anymore as it was ten minutes on the melting pot. The lubricant was steaming ore burning away look at the mold and read .-) oil the hinge often is standing at the mold!!! I take two drops of heat oil but You can also use silicon oil which is more heat resistant. Take a welding wire dip it into the oil and give one drop into the bolt at the hinge at each side open the mold and give one drop at the mold sides where the mold halves touches each other at both sides. I hope that this will help you to be much faster an better with Your hobby.

[@rider660r]

Another thing to help release the jigs easier is clean up the mold.If they're catching and hard to remove most times it's a burr or ledge that needs to be file or sanded off.Not one of our sinker,jig,or bullet molds have been "smoked" or sprayed and between my stepfather and I we have 60-70 yrs combined experience pouring. Also pouring one continuous pour instead of pouring each single cavity will allow you to remove the jigs quickly and will also speed up your production time. Keeping a pot at least 3/4 full is easier on the pot and make it last much longer.It'll also keep the junk and oxidation from getting down into the pour spout and causing blockages.....LOL just noticed at 8:00 they have an already dripping pot.Pot even looks like it was it's 1st use.

[@MikeSmith-ym9eq]

@@rider660r If I pour outside, am I safe from fumes, or should I wear a respirator, too?

[@rider660r]

@@MikeSmith-ym9eq Outside you should be perfectly fine. My stepfather and his father poured bullets and sinkers in the basement of his house for many many years with nothing.At 82 he's still here and will still pour time to time but mostly woodworks now. The main problem with lead is the white powdery corrosion on it,sanding creating microscopic particles both which will float around through the air,over heating it and causing it to offgas,handling it and touching anything you want to eat,drink,smoke,etc..As long as you're not doing those I'll say you'll have 0 problems.

[@rider660r]

@@MikeSmith-ym9eq Actually I do mine inside too and just had a operation back in Feb. They had to do tests before it and I asked them to check for lead.....got the all clear on it when they came back. I did buy a 3m mask specifically for lead a few yrs ago but don't use it.

[@rider660r]

@@MikeSmith-ym9eq Ohhhh,there is something I have been doing the last few years,I smoke so I spray my hands with Simple Green,rub them together and wipe with a rag. There is a lot of lead residue on the rag after doing that.I have tried wetting my hands and using reg. soap and it doesn't get rid of as much of it.

[@rcracer3235]

Great video lots of detail I am thinking about buying a crappie jig mold and was wondering what you would recommend and what is your favorite size for crappie?

[@8michael7]

1/8 to 1/4 oz jigs work well.

[@wyattshelton2080]

Dust your molds with graphite powder and adjust your flow rate down to almost drips, has always helped me the most

[@rider660r]

"smoking" or spraying a mold is not needed.....not if you have proper lead and mold temps. Doing so is just a band-aid to a problem,usually it's just a burr or ledge you can sand or file away. Out of all the molds I have i only have 1 that gives me a problem removing the jig,it's the Do-it 3494 Wobble Head jig mold and it's just the design of it and applying what band-aid isn't going to help anyhow.Just something one must live with.

[@eddiefamilyfriendsandbooze7008]

Thats cool. Makin jigs! Sweet

[@danhaire9567]

Use a candle (burning) to smoke your mold.

[@rider660r]

"smoking" or spraying a mold is not needed.....not if you have proper lead and mold temps. Doing so is just a band-aid to a problem,usually it's just a burr or ledge you can sand or file away. Out of all the molds I have i only have 1 that gives me a problem removing the jig,it's the Do-it 3494 Wobble Head jig mold and it's just the design of it and applying what band-aid isn't going to help anyhow.Just something one must live with.

[@fishinfool63]

Black or smoke your mold

[@ronniemartin8391]

Any body ever drilled the hole out in the bottom of spout?

[@8michael7]

I have not

[@rider660r]

Yes people have done it,I have not.It'll allow more lead to pour faster.I have poured up to 8oz with a factory 10lb bottom pour pot without a problem.The problem people have if they can't is they're not getting the mold and/or lead hot enough to start with.

[@rider660r]

Yet another YT "expert" hobbyist showing people how to do something without know themselves how to do it correctly....

[@fishinfool63]

And yet another keyboard warrior that cannot help himself

[@rider660r]

@@fishinfool63 I have had my fill explaining exactly how to melt and pour jigs and sinkers to jokes like you. I been pouring muzzle loader maxi an mini balls since some time in the 80's and sinkers an jigs in the 90's. It's not rocket science but for many of you it sure is. Then you have every JA on YT attempting to show people how to do it... that's the real joke. BTW,if you look on down I have told people how to do it properly. Stick that in your crak and ride it..