Thread: Motor oil

Originally Posted by Angler's Choice

Not at all close......................This is the colourant that will get you there, just use less than what was used to get the bait in the sample pic and it will turn out just as light with a faint hint of green. To get that shade with MF your will be over powered by the green overtone, Do It's Motor Oil which I suspect you're using here is not the same.

https://www.ispikeit.com/Store/p-388...d-dye-148.aspx

The plastic bait in the picture is root beer. I definitely will be ordering some motor oil from spike- it thank you.

Originally Posted by snake River

The plastic bait in the picture is root beer. I definitely will be ordering some motor oil from spike- it thank you.

I did receive a sample from spike it I will post later on this week on the sample that I have of their motor oil std dye 148.

Originally Posted by liftbite56

Sometime back we had a discussion about motor oil colorant ended up one
or two companies got the nod mainly for the color change when introduced to water or light . Could y'all refresh my memory? Was it lurecraft? Or someone else? Let me know I'm wanting to incorporate the motor oil in a shad pattern. Thanks LB

We sampled from spike it of motor oil here is a picture. perhaps I should have added a little bit more, COLOR to the batch of plastic but you do get a greenish sheen in the sun.

Bod I use the MF brand and it does take a lot of drops but it will get the color your after. I have
Some of the old Manns motor oil worms if you want me to post a picture for reference.

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Originally Posted by lowe175

Bod I use the MF brand and it does take a lot of drops but it will get the color your after. I have
Some of the old Manns motor oil worms if you want me to post a picture for reference.

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no that's okay I just needed to add more to the plastic to get that to come out I only got a little bit of a sample so I'll have to order some from spike it.