Just starting to get into tying jigs. One thing that I need to make is a nice Rack to hold my jigs after painting. I'm sure there are some pretty nice ones out there. Let's see what you all have made.
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Just starting to get into tying jigs. One thing that I need to make is a nice Rack to hold my jigs after painting. I'm sure there are some pretty nice ones out there. Let's see what you all have made.
This is what I use to paint. I load it up and flip it so any extra paint runs down the shank instead of giving me a cone head.
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My rack looks close to Hunters. It work very well.
Here is my eye drying rack, all threaded rod 1 ft X 1 ft square cost me about $10 in material.
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Here is one of three racks
http://www.crappie.com/crappie/jig-t...aint-bake.html
That's a great tip, thank you!Quote:
Originally Posted by hunter7711
Heres mine: Just aluminum bread pans - pull the rolled edges to an upright position use a hole punch and go around the edge, cut the four corners fold the short ends down then the long ends over them. I can put 3 of them on a cookie sheet and that's how I put them in the oven to bake. If anything was to drip it goes right in the pan.
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I just hang up to 30 at a time on the bobbin holder of my vise, then off to the oven with em.
I just use my toaster oven rack.
Mine is same as Hunters. Excellent idea.
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Made to fit my toaster oven
Small question. If you load up that rack then heat the jigs. How do you get them all painted before they cool off? By the way that is a really neat rack.
Attachment 80908Attachment 80909Attachment 80910Attachment 80911Attachment 80912When i'm dipping one at a time i use this simple system,dip hang on rod and hang in oven.When i'm doing several at a time i fire up the big bed preheat the jigs in the oven dip,clean eyes and cure all on the same rack.
I don't preheat them. I use an alcohol burner to heat one at a time, dip in the powder, run a round toothpick thru the eye, then hang on rack to bake after I've got it full.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tracker12
Mine is crude by everybody else's standards, but my scale is also personal. I have recently gone over to powder painting and this works for me. First of all I have detachable rods, three of them all very thin threaded rods that fit easily inside my toaster over, and I dip my jig heads individually. Each rod is thin enough to hold a size 8 jig hook loosely enough so that I can remove them one at a time with a needle nose pliers. The racks are nothing more than wire coat hangers bent to form the base to hang the rods on, one for inside the oven and the other for hanging dipped heads prior to curing and for loading the rods prior to preheating. The threads on the rods keep the jig heads from sliding into each other when I move the loaded rods which only takes a needle nose pliers. I have one rack outside for hanging the jigs on after dipping. Each rod holds up to 2 dozen 1/32 nd oz jig heads. I load them on the rod and move each rod as a unit to the rack in the oven while the oven is cold. 2 dozen or under the one rod goes on the notch closest to the door for pre-heating. For larger batches when the front rod is empty, I simply move the back rod to the front of the oven and use the empty rod outside to hang the next jigs on. I do not do over 4 dozen at a sitting, and I both preheat and cure them all at once, whether there is just one rod full or I use two rods.
I went down to the local ACE hardware with a couple of jigs in my pocket to pick out the rod which I then cut down into the sections. The coat hangers came out of the back closet.
As you can see from the crude drawing the racks are crude but they work just fine for what I need them to be. I pull the rack and the pan that came with the oven years ago and place the jig rack right on the bottom. I also dip as cool as possible which produces almost no runs or plugged jig eyes. This works well enough for black which is all I paint anyway.
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Here is my jig rack I use before and after the oven:
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