How many people here do this? been looking at the equipment for about a mth now...Heard alot of good stuff about it. Where did you get your setups? and do you like it?
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How many people here do this? been looking at the equipment for about a mth now...Heard alot of good stuff about it. Where did you get your setups? and do you like it?
Spin Casting??I cast them with my Finor Lite spinning reel.Does that count?
you mean the push button closed type of reels?used to use one them when i was little.i think i have one but i don't like fishing with it.its kind of annoying.could be that its a cheap reel not built well,or wrong line on it tho.i use spinning reels all the time usually.
PBug I have a spincast set up,got it from Contenti in Rhode Island.I like it just fine but you better be real searious before you invest because there is lots of hidden cost that go along with it,as well as space needed to run it all,if your going to run it by yourself you will only get around 5000 heads aday but with two more helping you can push 14000 a day fairly easy.
Seems that it is more to then chucking a jighead,lol.
LOL yea but chucking the jighead is lots more fun:DQuote:
Originally Posted by azslabber
I believe what he is asking about is a centrifuge caster for jig heads. The molten lead is fed into a centrally located opening. Channels go to each individual head and it forms about 1200 heads at a time. Loading the thing with hooks takes longer than the actual casting.
A local lure manufacturer had one of these setups and several custom circular molds to go with it. His investment was heavy ( several thousand dollars ) but his sales justified his investment. I seen it in operation twice. It was impressive to say the least. Very few heads came out imperfect. I believe Ed told me he had only about a 1 % scrap rate.
yeap the centrifuge setup is whaat im talking about....was looking at a setup today for everything around 4800.00......hmmmm
GREAT DEAL !!!lol.You had better jump all over that one Jason,lol.
hey az i may do it i dont know. they say it takes longer to load the machine than it does to pour the the heads
You would have to keep that thing running to justify it. Which means you would have to sell a bunch of jigheads!
can some one post a pic of this cool machine pls cause if im thinking right there is a lot of people that make jewlery with thoes things and they use pewter and pewter has almost the same properties as lead
It's not the "MAKING" it's the "SELLING" to get your money back that would bother me.
az you sure hit the nail on the head there lol
Just as an example a guy over at Tackle Underground just went through the motions of buying just a mold!!!!!!!!!!! to go in one of the machines and his cost for the mold is about $4 thousand dollars!!!!!!!!!! That's just one mold.
He's gonna have someone else do his pouring for him and he owns the rights to the mold. He's not sure if he wants to get the machine or not yet.
Fatman
fatman someone sure seen your freind comming,there is all kind of guys that will charge from 60.00 to 150.00 to make a spincast mold.I myself when I make a mold for someone they have exclusive rights to it no one else gets any from it with out there written permision.
But most guys just look at the cost of the machine.It doesnt sound so bad if you say it real fast LOl,but youve got to have a good leadpot normal cost is around $2300.00 for it they offer a 80 pound electric for around 800.00 but it wont work doesnt heat hot enough for the spinning,if your making your own molds then you have to have a ring frame,acorn nuts,dry lube,mica powder,raw silicone $500.00 for case of each color and lets you do 20 molds,and a vulcanizer,also so will need gate ring set just another 60.00 cutting tools Then most of all you have to be able to make the mold LOL also gonna need a air compressor 20 gal will work fine just another 200 to 300,When it is all said a done you will drop at leats $8000.00
To start to recoupe your start up I figured my first 300,000 were freebees LOL