Is it me or are some colors just hard to use? I seem to have a real problem cureing white and pink.
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Is it me or are some colors just hard to use? I seem to have a real problem cureing white and pink.
TRy Lowering your tempature to about 200 degrees in your oven! Some times in up wright position they will develop a pointed type head this comes from tempature being to hot!
Hope this helps
CrappieDale
Sloe,Dale is right.All the colors have different cure times and temps.Skip has a good chart here somewhere with the info,Ill see if I can find it.
Im probably in the minority here,but I dont cure anymore.I have very little trouble with a properly painted head,and usually dont keep the jig long enough to warrant another step :p..
If it had been a snake it would have bit me...
Top sticky post....http://www.crappie.com/crappie/jig-t...emps-time.html
That is exactly what it does. One more question please: I have a very small toaster oven. Would that make a diff.?Quote:
Originally Posted by Crappie Dale
You make some nice jigs Dale.
Sloedown
Also if you have paint nipples, then you have way too much powder on the jig. I personally would not drop the temperature in your oven no lower than 300 degrees (Fahrenheit) when curing(baking). You want the paint molecules to cross link and adhere to your jig. That is the whole point of curing a painted jig so it hardens the paint. I'm not saying that you can't do that, I'm saying that I don't believe you get a good hard finish that way. Do as you will. I would learn to put less paint on, and that would solve 90% of your problem. If you want an easy and fast way to paint a lot of jigs one color with an even paint coat buy or build yourself a fluid bed. For one color application and ease of use it can't be beat. BTW toaster oven size has nothing to do with paint quality. Just make sure the heat you are getting out of the toaster oven is accurate. Just my 2 cents worth.
I Once Forgot About A Mess A Jigs I Had Curing In The Oven, Only I Herd The Same Thing About Lower Temps".i Had It Set At 225f And For Nearly 4 Hrs. Those Things Cooked"mind They Were All Colors Including White", And I Bet At Just 1/2 An Hour At 225deg. They Were As Hard As They Were Ever Gonna Get,and Not" Nary A Nipple ,brown Stains,nor Cracking Occurred...":)
I'm with cadman,check the toaster oven's temp accuracy.Lower temps work for me.
Only problem I ever had was too much paint. Once I got them figured out I cook them all at 300-325 and never have a problem.
I had probs with white and yellow tell i lowered temp to 300 for 30 minutes then all was well also try to only dip head in paint real quick or make a fluid bed it helps.
JJ