cooling down heads

[boogullman]

Have any of you tried dipping jigheads in water after you pull them out of powder paint instead of faning them like crazy until you can lay them down.

[hunter7711]

That's the only way I do it. Can't imagine any other way. It would take you forever.

[STUMP HUNTER]

I hang my jigs to let them cool.

[skiptomylu]

If I am doing just a few I may do that, but when I do a bunch (actually anything more than a few) I just use my stats to take them out of the toaster over and hang them on a rack I use then painting. If I use the big oven I have my rain gutters on top of a cookie sheet that has been covered on top with tin foil. Then I take the entire cookie sheet out and let it sit for a few minutes. I think it only takes like 5-6 minutes even for 1/4 Oz. and the cookie sheet.

Small heads like 1/32 cool so fast once you take them out and hang them they are cooled.

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[fish_4_all]

I hand my heads on the edge of a flat cake pan to cool. By the time I am done dipping them I can rack the coll ones and the hot ones are cool by the time I am done.

[snake River]

we do the same as you skip .

[ScottV]

Have any of you tried dipping jigheads in water after you pull them out of powder paint instead of faning them like crazy until you can lay them down.

Are you talking about dipping your heads in water before you cure them or when you take them out of the oven? I have a metal rack like your wife would set her hot pie on to cool. Don't tell her where it went. I hang my jigs on it after powder painting. When I remove my jigs from the oven, I just let them cool off on top of the oven for 15 minutes or so.

[azslabber]

I do like 10 at a time.I just let them in there.lol

[hunter7711]

I'm talking about when I'm painting, not after cureing.

[skiptomylu]

I'm talking about when I'm painting, not after cureing.

Never then and just hang them on a baking rack I have that is stair step with 3 rails on each side. I only have to use one rail though as I can take them off pretty fast after hanging them. If I paint 12 and when done take off 8 they will be cool and in just a minute or two the last 4 will be cool.

This way if I keep rotating them I take 8 off and paint more until I need the space where the first 4 were still hanging and then take them off and keep adding.

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