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Dual color troubles
If anyone has advice, I'm all ears. I have a 2" BA Shad mold and tails mold. The tails mold has one injection port and makes a dozen tails a shot. I put them in the body mold and it has a port per lure. When injecting, I have been getting large air pockets in some of the bodies. I suspected the injector is sealing and there isn't a vent. I have also tried pouring, which solves the air in the bodies but now I'm suffering from body/tail separating. I think this is because the plastisol is cooling too fast.
Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
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Did you bleed your injector of air bubbles if you poured plastic into it instead of sucking plastic into the injector? Might check your injector o ring. Also when I’m injecting a body onto a tail I shoot it hot. Like 375 and hold pressure. Too cool and not a good bond. I hear some people put their tails in the molds and then put on the molds on a hot plate to warm them up so that the tail plastic is heated.
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Most of the time that’s because not enough air is getting out of the mold if it is not vented properly you will have problems I customize my molds if they need to be I don’t advise anybody to do that unless they know what they’re doing.
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Thanks for the replies. I suspected the trouble with delamination when pouring could be resolved with warming the plates, but I wanted to bust them apart sooner than that allows.
For the injection issue, I suspected I needed a vent. I feel like injection would be much better than pouring. I'll have to give a solution for a vent some thought and trial one of the body cavities.
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Thanks for the replies. I suspected the trouble with delamination when pouring could be resolved with warming the plates, but I wanted to bust them apart sooner than that allows.
For the injection issue, I suspected I needed a vent. I feel like injection would be much better than pouring. I'll have to give a solution for a vent some thought and trial one of the body cavities.