I had quite a bunch of unpainted jigs of the wrong type on size 6 hooks; so I melted the lead off them and thought I had them pretty clean. I had no end of trouble casting 1/32 collared, tanged jigheads with them. These were for my own use, of course. Do new hooks just plain work better on the little jig heads? I sorta hate to throw away all those hooks, most of which have never seen the water. All bronze hooks.