It was great to see another video. Looks like you found a great way to reuse old plastic and make very nice baits. You are going to have a lot of fun playing mad scientist and making new creations. Also, great info for your community. Be blessed. My friend.
The Hatchet Craw can be a little temperamental, but looks great in the water and it has GREAT action! I've been throwing around the idea of picking up a 6qt. combo from them for a year or so, but haven't pulled the trigger. I use to keep my left over pucks, plastic, and used baits together but I invested in a few 2-3 gallon square stackable Tupperware type containers to keep my colors separate. Brown, Black, Green, Purple, Shad, Red, and Misc. I also grind them periodically with a cheap meat grinder off Amazon (get the 2 year warranty for $4-5) I have definitely used more leftovers than when I kept everything mixed together, but still have way to much sitting around.....maybe one of these will help me get rid of all it....see how I try to talk myself into it? lol
@kelster1574 lol thanks for watching man! I never thought of a meat grinder, that's a great idea, and keeping the colors separate is awesome too. If your cool with it I will make a video on that with your credit of course! Thanks again for watching!
Just remember anything with salt will need to be ground and dried. I set it out in the hot Arizona summer sun, but in other climates putting it on oven racks in the oven at a low heat will allow it to steam out. There is a limit to how hard I will work to recycle plastisol.
@pmm422 I can try that on my next batch for sure! Black just works very well here in VA for me, muddy water etc. But definitely will try that bud, good suggestion! Thanks for watching!
It may seem a little fiddly, but if you make a point of always putting your chunks back in one side it makes it a little less likely that you will suck one up into the injector if you always draw from the other side. If you're really running a lot of plastic, you may even want to just soften them up and remelt in the microwave. It may seem a little fiddly as. I. Mentioned at the beginning, but you, can get used to it and really go through some plastic. It becomes automatic. I've got a couple of the old original Bear's Baits stirring pots (parts from one of the original Shooting Star) and with several injectors and several molds setup I can a crank out a crazy amount of baits very quickly. For testing new molds and testing customer custom molds I just microwave, a small amount of plastic, but about twice a year, I'll make up all the baits that I think I'm likely to use for the next year plus a few extras. I really like the N2 injectors myself. When I make a big batch on my shoot days I'll stock up on Club-Os, RT45s & 35s, RFLTs, and of course Curly Buzz Frogs. I ran almost a gallon in each pot, but the old Bear's stirrer are taller and are subjectivly the best pot stirrer I've seen. The only one that seems to keep salt suspended. Instead of using my hand when I'm cranking out my years supply I added a foot switch to the stirring motors.
@cncmoldsnstuff4423 that's the first time I've heard about the bear bait stirrer, that's awesome. And great idea with the keeping chunks on one side. Thanks for the tip man! That's the stuff that I like to teach others, the little tricks that some people know, love it! Thanks man!
@@B8N_Tackle Yeah, David Alexander (Bears Baits Owner) died several years ago. He was a pioneer in home and small shop bait making, and he was a good mold maker. He also had some good people working for him at that time. The way I recall is his shop flood 3-4 feet deep during Hurricane Katrina. He was trying to get everything up and running, but it was a lot. I ordered some molds from him myself even though I was making my own molds, just to show some support. He tried to refund my money and I told him, "No. Someday you will get your shop back up and running and you can make those molds for me. In the mean time use the money to pay bills and work on your shop." There were people furious with him at the time, but anybody who didn't want to wait he instantly refunded their purchases. Great guy from my limited knowledge and scant few conversations. I was told he died from some illness, but I always feel like he died from a broken heart not being able to get his shop going again.
It was great to see another video. Looks like you found a great way to reuse old plastic and make very nice baits. You are going to have a lot of fun playing mad scientist and making new creations. Also, great info for your community. Be blessed. My friend.
Appreciate you, man! Thanks for the support!
Wow, that looked like a really fun project. Got a ton of great baits from the presto pot.
@BarDownBaits thanks for watching bud!
Thanks for sharing this great option for big batches. This was very helpful indeed.
@tonymcnatt5077 thanks Tony!
Thanks for sharing.
@bryanmasters5423 thanks for watching Bryan!
The Hatchet Craw can be a little temperamental, but looks great in the water and it has GREAT action!
I've been throwing around the idea of picking up a 6qt. combo from them for a year or so, but haven't pulled the trigger. I use to keep my left over pucks, plastic, and used baits together but I invested in a few 2-3 gallon square stackable Tupperware type containers to keep my colors separate. Brown, Black, Green, Purple, Shad, Red, and Misc. I also grind them periodically with a cheap meat grinder off Amazon (get the 2 year warranty for $4-5) I have definitely used more leftovers than when I kept everything mixed together, but still have way to much sitting around.....maybe one of these will help me get rid of all it....see how I try to talk myself into it? lol
@kelster1574 lol thanks for watching man! I never thought of a meat grinder, that's a great idea, and keeping the colors separate is awesome too. If your cool with it I will make a video on that with your credit of course! Thanks again for watching!
Just remember anything with salt will need to be ground and dried. I set it out in the hot Arizona summer sun, but in other climates putting it on oven racks in the oven at a low heat will allow it to steam out. There is a limit to how hard I will work to recycle plastisol.
I don't think I would have added the black, I liked the brown. May have added some medium black flake. Was cool to see the Presto Pot in action.
@pmm422 I can try that on my next batch for sure! Black just works very well here in VA for me, muddy water etc. But definitely will try that bud, good suggestion! Thanks for watching!
Or maybe do a PB&J laminate or swirl?
It may seem a little fiddly, but if you make a point of always putting your chunks back in one side it makes it a little less likely that you will suck one up into the injector if you always draw from the other side. If you're really running a lot of plastic, you may even want to just soften them up and remelt in the microwave. It may seem a little fiddly as. I. Mentioned at the beginning, but you, can get used to it and really go through some plastic. It becomes automatic. I've got a couple of the old original Bear's Baits stirring pots (parts from one of the original Shooting Star) and with several injectors and several molds setup I can a crank out a crazy amount of baits very quickly. For testing new molds and testing customer custom molds I just microwave, a small amount of plastic, but about twice a year, I'll make up all the baits that I think I'm likely to use for the next year plus a few extras. I really like the N2 injectors myself. When I make a big batch on my shoot days I'll stock up on Club-Os, RT45s & 35s, RFLTs, and of course Curly Buzz Frogs. I ran almost a gallon in each pot, but the old Bear's stirrer are taller and are subjectivly the best pot stirrer I've seen. The only one that seems to keep salt suspended. Instead of using my hand when I'm cranking out my years supply I added a foot switch to the stirring motors.
@cncmoldsnstuff4423 that's the first time I've heard about the bear bait stirrer, that's awesome. And great idea with the keeping chunks on one side. Thanks for the tip man! That's the stuff that I like to teach others, the little tricks that some people know, love it! Thanks man!
@@B8N_Tackle Yeah, David Alexander (Bears Baits Owner) died several years ago. He was a pioneer in home and small shop bait making, and he was a good mold maker. He also had some good people working for him at that time. The way I recall is his shop flood 3-4 feet deep during Hurricane Katrina. He was trying to get everything up and running, but it was a lot. I ordered some molds from him myself even though I was making my own molds, just to show some support. He tried to refund my money and I told him, "No. Someday you will get your shop back up and running and you can make those molds for me. In the mean time use the money to pay bills and work on your shop." There were people furious with him at the time, but anybody who didn't want to wait he instantly refunded their purchases. Great guy from my limited knowledge and scant few conversations. I was told he died from some illness, but I always feel like he died from a broken heart not being able to get his shop going again.
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