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I have been using those small cans of Sterno you get at WM to heat up my jig heads when I powder paint.. Now our local WM no longer carries Sterno due to druggies buying them. At least thats what the store manager said. How do you heat up your heads?
Hard to beat a heat gun ... Harbor Freight has the best price on one ... if you are doing a lot of them you might want to get one of them with more than 2 heat ranges.
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I have a dual stage heat gun left over from my electronic service days. How do you use it? Do you leave it on or? Lay it down?
I stand mine up and hover the jig over the heat with a pair of long hemostats rotating it to even the heat out. Watch the color and when it starts getting shinny its time for a dip .I use a B&D 2 stage heat gun. Tried candle,propane and toaster oven and the heatgun has the best range. My commercial jig friends use propane because it's faster. They do several hundred thousand sauger 1 1/2 oz. jigs a year and a heat gun takes 20 secs. to heat.My heat gun takes 9 secs. for most 1/8 oz. jigs. I have had my heatgun for over a year with no problems.$19 at Lowes. I saw some Harbour Freight guns for $9.Oldwun I like the name of your town.....Ifish
PS: Oldwun be very careful with the end of that heat gun . Been burnt several times leaning over the table or reaching around the gun to get something until I wrapped the barrel with some fire door seal tape. Still have the scars !! If you can't find something to wrap the barrel with PM me your address and I will send you some fire door tape.
I started out with a cigarette lighter,now i use an alcohol burner lamp.
I use one of those little propane heaters that you would use in a tent. Takes about 6 seconds to heat an 1/8oz. jig. Hold with pair of needle nose...works great!
heat gun only way i would do it anymore
I use a two setting heat gun from Ace hardware. Works great for me. Just don't let the Rottweilers in the room while you are painting!!!:eek::eek::eek:
i ve tried it all and the heat gun is best. adjustable temp is nice but not a must have.
just don t over heat jig head and let it melt and drip into gun it will short out.
Have 2 heat guns and don't really like them that much for this, wires in the way if you kock it over or catch it with your sleeve or something else. I use an alcohol lame and love it, you can get one from Barlow's Tackle where I got mine. Alcohol is clean burning (no black stuff).
Skip
there's always the trusty Bic",and Zippo!:eek:"just be careful to make sure the jig head remains in the (Blue") flamer or discoloring will occur to your paint from burning in the (Orange") flame being too hot.;)
I just use a propane torch with a 16 oz bottle. It will stand up on its own. Grab the jighead by the eye and pass quickly 3 or 4 times thru the flame and dip. Tap off excess & bake to cure. Eye stays clean.
I use a candle because I have not found an alcohol burner yet. If I was gonna do a lot of jigs all the time I would get a toaster oven and a large fluid bed so I could heat and dip up to 200 jigs at a time or dip a lot of smaller racks at the same time.
Supposedly a good working fluid bed will not plug the eye of even the smallest hooks. Larger hooks I knw this works but I have not had much luck with really small hooks not getting plugged. I think if I ever did it large scale I would feed a light wire through the eyes of the hooks to keep them clear.
Alcohol burner with denatured alcohol, clean burning, no soot and no noise.
I use this alsoQuote:
Originally Posted by Baxter1
JJ
Try Barlow's Tackle for one. Not what I would call really quality, but have used mine for about 4 years now and I like it. Not sure why it cost even this much, but it works very well.Quote:
Originally Posted by fish_4_all
I have bought two other alcohol that were better quality for no more than this, but one was too small and had a small wick which made for a small flame and I like the size of this one best.
If you should want a link to the all metal one that is smaller just tell me and I will find it for you.
Barlows Tackle Shop: Browsing Alcohol Burner
Heat gun for me! I built a stand to lay the gun down on. Merely switch
on (lo heat). hold the jig in front of it for a few seconds, swish thru
powder paint, hold up to gun again for aa few seconds. Done!
a heat gun is the only way to go they are very inexpensive. I bought a multiple setting heat gun a about $54. you can buy them cheaper but they do work good. and you can buy them at Wal-Mart or any of your automotive stores or any hardware store. once you start using one you'll never use anything else for jigs my heat gun is a Wagner.
Well Bob I hate to even say this, but I paint on an antique table that came over from Europe any years ago (like over 250 years old) and if I was using a heat gun and accidentally knocked it over and made a mark on that table I would never forgive my self. So I sue the alcohol lamp as it has no wires for me to catch things on ad turn over, LOL! If I was using some piece of crud table to paint on then I may use a heat gun too, but I kind of doubt it since I have got so use to it now. I feel sure my mother would turn over in her grave and maybe even come back to visit me if I messed this table up, LOL!Quote:
Originally Posted by snake River
If I had the chance to get anything close to what it's worth I would sell it and the buffet that it comes with. I may even include the hutch/china cabinet that has a hand painting on the front of it, but not sure about that one.
Sometimes we each have reasons of things we do that don't really make all things equal for our reasons.
Skip
Personally I have found that a candle, soon to be an alcohol burner gives me a lot more control when I want to paint with different colors. If I want a heavier coat of paint on the tip of the jig head I can heat it quickly and dip it to get that. I can also target specific spots that I want to sprinkle paint on so it won't stick as much to spots I don;t want it. That and I don't have to worry about my kids getting a little out of hand and wind up making a trip to the emergency room.
For mass production I still think that nothing will beat a large fluid bed avaliable from CSI and a couple large racks to dip hundreds of jigs at the same time or at least make it a LOT faster.