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Can Someone Tell Me The Secret To Powder Painting Jig Heads And Keeping The Eye Unclogged? I Have Tried And Tried. It Seems Like Every Time I Dip The Head The Eye Of The Jig Fills With The Powder Paint. It Is A Night Mare For Me To Clean Out. Almost Impossible If I Dont Catch It And Clean It Before I Bake The Hooks. Is There A Secret ?

The secret is needle nose plires.

I know some pinch the eye with what ever they use to dip it, but I don't want my hemo's to be all full of paint either since I take it back to the flame after painting. I then stick a tooth pick into the eye until I get enough out. If it fills again when curing then I use an old bodkin to heat and melt it back out. I even keep a little container with all the different color of tooth picks in there and I re-use them over and over until I can't.

I probably take more time than most with painting though.

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Heat the jig just enough for the paint to stick on (trial and error and you need a heat gun or a controled heat source). The paint will come off alot easier. Clean the eye with something that will fit into the eye, I use an exacto knife or a scribe. I don't nick the metal of the hook because it doesn't take that much pressure to remove the paint. Then cure in the oven.

I use a cheap pair of pliers to hold the eye when I did it. I was taught this trick one here and it works awesome. I don't reheat them in the pliers though. I simply put them on my rack and then cure/bake them.

If you get clogged eyes the easiest way to clean them out is to use a heated point. Use the heat source that you use to heat the jigs. By the way clean them out BEFORE you cure the paint. The heated point melts the paint easily this is the best way I found to do it.

Check this out it may help you.

http://www.crappie.com/crappie/jig-t...ting-jigs.html

I got a cheap pair of hemostats with a curve in it. I grasp the jig by the eye and heat, then dip, then tap, then cure. If you grap the eye correctly, you will not dip the eye into the paint, and if you do, the hemos will keep the eye open