Are there any tricks to keep the hookeye free from paint
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Fatman
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Alot of the guys hold the eyelet with a pair of forceps then dip. If you're using a fluid bed if you angle it just right you can keep the eye clean. I just dip em and then clean em - a gentle squeeze then poke the a needle through BEFORE curing will clean it right out.
There's several threads about this and lots of different ideas
There's several threads about this and lots of different ideas
I do the same - hold the eye of the hook with forceps. It keeps paint out of the inside of the eye but will still get some around the outside of the eye. You can scrape that off easily with a knife blade before you cure the paint in the oven.
You are painting bismuth heads, correct? Not sure if you are using a mixed alloy or pure bismuth, but one thing i have learned is to keep the heat low when you are heating the head to put the paint on. Just hot enough for the powder paint to stick is enough. If the head gets too hot when you are first heating it up, the metal has odd lumps that will grow when it cools down. It sounds strange, but it has happened several times to me on heads made with a mixed bismuth/tin alloy when i left them to heat for too long over a flame.
You are painting bismuth heads, correct? Not sure if you are using a mixed alloy or pure bismuth, but one thing i have learned is to keep the heat low when you are heating the head to put the paint on. Just hot enough for the powder paint to stick is enough. If the head gets too hot when you are first heating it up, the metal has odd lumps that will grow when it cools down. It sounds strange, but it has happened several times to me on heads made with a mixed bismuth/tin alloy when i left them to heat for too long over a flame.
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A fluid bed will greatly increase your speed of powder painting jigs, and will help keep the hook eye from getting paint in it as well. The fluid bed will ensure that your paint goes on the jig more evenly and not getting too much paint on the head.
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If there is still at little paint in the eye of the hook, simply use an eyebuster to clear the paint. Make sure your clean the eye of the hook before you put them in the oven because one the paint is baked and it cures, it will make it very hard, and tough to remove.
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If there is still at little paint in the eye of the hook, simply use an eyebuster to clear the paint. Make sure your clean the eye of the hook before you put them in the oven because one the paint is baked and it cures, it will make it very hard, and tough to remove.
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Good info Jann's welcome to Jig Craft !
AtticaFish said:
Hi,
I am using a 95% bismuth alloy, so heating using a flame is quite a joy now. But I have had some problems with beading, and also noticed some lumbs, ocurring during the curing process.
But after I have started to cure at your low specs, everithing is fine.