02-15-2008, 04:31 PM
TD, I've been making a couple of in-line spinners and had a question.
When I bought the supplies, I only bought the 3/4 in. in-line blades (not the clevis type blade). Do the larger blades spin better in faster moving water? The spinners I make are really simple and work well when the rivers are running slow, but ever time I've been out with them after a storm or something, it seems that the blades are not spinning well.
Another question: When you do your initial white coat before painting any other colors, do you use the powder paint? My neighbor has a powder coating machine (and dedicated oven in his garage) and I could buy a can of white powder from Harbor Freight for like 7 bucks. Would actual powder coat work as well as the powder paint or the vinyl paint? I know that the powder paint is almost identical to powder coat, but the biggest difference is in curing temp. Powder coat is cured at 450 degrees for about an hour. With doing spinner blades or thinner metal, you could cut the cure time to 20 mins or so, but I was just wondering if it would work as well. The reason I ask is that I could powder coat a bunch of blades very fast (100 or so an hour, pending set up time). If this would work as well you could save a bunch of time on the first step to custom paint jobs.
I don't have any pics on my computer here at work of the spinners, but I'll bring some in to post tomorrow so you can see what I've got going on.
BTW, just browsing through some of the older posts here on the lure and jig making thread, and I got some really good ideas from the painting spinner blades post. Thanks for the pics man, I would be completely lost with out those. (Like my first batch of painted blades, that I painted with engine spray paint[shocked]).
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When I bought the supplies, I only bought the 3/4 in. in-line blades (not the clevis type blade). Do the larger blades spin better in faster moving water? The spinners I make are really simple and work well when the rivers are running slow, but ever time I've been out with them after a storm or something, it seems that the blades are not spinning well.
Another question: When you do your initial white coat before painting any other colors, do you use the powder paint? My neighbor has a powder coating machine (and dedicated oven in his garage) and I could buy a can of white powder from Harbor Freight for like 7 bucks. Would actual powder coat work as well as the powder paint or the vinyl paint? I know that the powder paint is almost identical to powder coat, but the biggest difference is in curing temp. Powder coat is cured at 450 degrees for about an hour. With doing spinner blades or thinner metal, you could cut the cure time to 20 mins or so, but I was just wondering if it would work as well. The reason I ask is that I could powder coat a bunch of blades very fast (100 or so an hour, pending set up time). If this would work as well you could save a bunch of time on the first step to custom paint jobs.
I don't have any pics on my computer here at work of the spinners, but I'll bring some in to post tomorrow so you can see what I've got going on.
BTW, just browsing through some of the older posts here on the lure and jig making thread, and I got some really good ideas from the painting spinner blades post. Thanks for the pics man, I would be completely lost with out those. (Like my first batch of painted blades, that I painted with engine spray paint[shocked]).
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