Powder painting jig holder

I've got the powder painting process pretty much down pat. I built a fluid bed, make my own paint cups, modified some needle nose pliers to hold the jigs by the eye while heating and dipping, but the one thing I lack is a good stand, holder, rack or whatever you want to call it to put the jigs on while they cool. I've been using a wire stretched between two nails in a door frame in the shop and it works good but that isn't portable and it takes a little time to move from painting to the wire.

So I've got some ideas on how to make a rack to hold them, but thought I'd see if any of you guys have anything you really like before I go to reinventing the wheel.

I did score a nice toaster oven for baking them in at one of the local thrift stores. It cost a whopping $4.75. It's nice enough that my wife wants to put it in the house. She'll just have to score her own thrift store find. :)

I just took a piece of 1 by4 about 24 inches long. Took a coat hanger straightened it out then bent 2 90s about 4 inches long. Twist the ends into a circle then bent them and installed to board with wood screws. Holds around 60 jigs when painted. Then I took some 3 inch angle aluminum, 2 pieces about 10 inches long. Got some small all thread drilled holes and put it through holes and double nutted each end. Made it just wide enough to fit inside oven. Thread holds hooks separated so they don’t stick together when baking.

Kind of crude but they been working for 10years.

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I use all thread between 2 A shaped boards. The threaded rod keeps them from sliding around. Got the idea from someone on here.

Check out tj tackle he has a clamp you can put them in then put in oven


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All good ideas. Cray, that's about what I had come up with too. I was gonna bend notches in the wire so the jigs wouldn't move but then tlefire fixed that problem for me. Thanks guys!

So how do you guys keep the powder off the eye of the hook? My needle nose pliers that I notched out work pretty good but they get so gunked up with powder paint that I have to grind it off every once and a while.

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This is what I use. Just resigned myself to have to stop and clean paint off every few jigs. You could get small heat shrink and cut tiny pieces to slip over eye ( which is what I do on swivels for pony beards ) then hold by bend of hook and never put pliers in paint..

https://www.crappie.com/crappie/pour...lean-jig-eyes/

Charlie I guess there isn't a fast way to hold them without having to clean off paint. I do like the heat shrink idea. I've never painted any pone head jigs but I've wondered how to keep the paint off the swivel and eye.

I get my heat shrink from a electronics parts store in Memphis. 4 ft stick of it is about 1.25 or so. Sit and cut with scissors into tiny 1/4 in or so pieces is a pain but worth it in long run. Yep, there is no really fast way to do them if you want them nice and clean.