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Someone sent me the actual gram weight for the 1/24 oz head but I have misplaced it. I know it was different than the weight Kelly had used in his Utube video. I would like to know the weights in grams for 1/32, 1/24, 1/16 and 1/8 oz heads. To much math for this old man to calculate.
with an oz being 28.35 gr
1/8=3.54 gr.
1/16=1.77 gr.
1/24=1.18 gr.
1/32=.886 gr.
I find most jig heads are not the same weight as they are said to be. Don't know if it's hook size or what they put with the soft lead to make it like they want or what but most of the ones I actually weighed have not come equal to what the mold was for that they used. I am sure most use Do-it molds, but I don't know and have never compared them with others.
The different hooks and different amounts of soft lead opposed to what ever they mix with it that will make the weight what it really is.
I kind of feel it is as much the physical size as it is the weight.
If I am wrong it would be great for someone to speak up.
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I agree. I've got a scale which will weigh items down to .001 oz - and most of the jigs I weighed on it aren't close to the weights simple math says I should have.
This includes jigs I've bought and those I have cast. I don't have an answer as to why this is.
I posted a question of a similar in the thread on jig modification video that Kelly M. made....didn't get much for an answer....
UG
I hear Kelly hung up his guide business and sold out. There are bound to be inconsistencies when you have so many variables. I just want to get close,
the diametrical equal would be .237 of a inch in dia. grains would be 18.9 standard
Flatfish are you really Albert Einstein come back from the dead all reincarnated and stuff. You always sperimentin an buildin things...could you make me a minner bucket air pump that is nuclear powered and won't use 2 million d batteries in a years fishingQuote:
Originally Posted by flatfish46
:D or maybe an outboard motor that runs on used cooking oil or maybe.....well I'm just dreaming again lol..........brim
yeah i've often wondered about the true weights.... in talks with some fellow tinkerteers we questioned the fact of having two molds for 1/24 oz jigs... provided that the jig head was the exact same diameter, would a 1/24 oz jig with a collar weigh the same as a 1/24 oz jig without a collar? again, given the fact that the jig head is the exact same diameter for both molds...
With all the variables the heck with it use your jigs and go fishing. Depending on what you mold with the heads will be different weights anyway.
Fatman
hehehe... my thoughts exactly!!!
I bought 64 oz heads from 3 different sources and all are different in size and weight
Joe
Reaper I could show you something I built,but it's proably been outlawed in every state for crappie fishing except Alaska and Texas !!!!!!!
cause you got to have big water to use it that way you don't convert all the fish !
reaper why not just take a 4 stroke boat motor and run it on water? you can take a and use the electrolysis process and convert water and baking soda (the catalyst) and convert it into hydrogen which in return can be used to power you boat motor and then can be used to power the minner pump. to keep it green the exhaust of this system is a super steam since there is no carbon in the molecular compound of water you don't have the build up inside the engine. burns much cleaner. hmmm why have i not built this.
I have weighed a bunch of jigs one my reloading electronic scale. I weighed them in grains which is the smallest weight unit measurement as far as i know. Most of my jigs came in very close to theoretical stated measurements. Most came in just under which i preferred for delicate float fishing.
You have to watch your measurements as some gram scales are not super accurate to very small units. And as a note for most scales in general they are more accurate as you get toward the high end of their range.
I have been told by someone in the business for over 30 years that the sizes 1/16, 1/32 etc are just to let you know the approx size and not actual weight. There are too many variables to make them consistent. Hooks sizes wire or heavy duty, collar or no collar, soft lead or hard lead. They said the original sizes were 00, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, etc....and there was confusion as to what size they really were and complicated even more when some wanted a much larger jig or a much smaller.... and all in between. So somewhere in time they switched to the fraction sizing. Although the fraction sizing does not actually weigh the exact wt, it is fairly close. But, the 1/32 size jig is going to be that size head pretty much across the board. I have been trying to research this in my spare time, and would love to find something credible in print for the jig history.
I have a Escali Liberta series scale, model PR50. It will weigh grams, oz, pennyweight, and troy oz. It max capacity is 50gr / 1.75oz. It comes w/ a 50gr calibration weight.
For giggles, I just weighed 4 1/32 'oz' jigs, 2 I poured (Do-it mold), 2 purchased from Cabelas (differant packages), all collarless.
Poured jig 1 w/ #8 hook
.77 gr
.028 oz
Poured jig 2 w/ #6 hook
.69 gr
.024 oz
Those numbers are not reversed - the jig w/ the larger hook weighed less....
Cabelas #1 w/ a #6 hook
.84 gr
.030 oz
Cabelas #2 w/ a #6 hook
.90 gr
.032 oz
My calculator tells me a 1/32 oz jig should be .03125 oz.
W/ regard to the jigs I cast, I know that one of them was cast using wheel weight lead, and the other was from lead I suspect was from wheel weights.
I just ordered 3 pkgs of 1/32 oz jigs from Cabelas (it's to cold outside to cast any more), was told on the phone "the jig heads are running larger due to a change in casting material" - Cabela's must have gone "green" - will be interesting to compare those head sizes and weights when they arrive.
UG
The main reason I don't try to do stuff like that is because things have a tendency to go BOOM!!!!!!! when I speriment...sorry for wrecking this thread...I'll hush now:(Quote:
Originally Posted by Saline Lake Jigs
oh yeah sorry for blowing up the post i have a bad habit of that.