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Specialist, the bottles say Envirotex lite, but no matter if Home Depot carried it the guys you talked to would have been able to figure out what you were looking for. I have never bought it there, I've always gotten it at Spag's which is close by for me. I think I said in an earlier post it was available at Home Depot but that was an assumption on my part. (sorry!) Considering the size of Home Depot I would have expected them to carry it. It is a very popular product and perhaps you should try another hardware outfit or a paint store. However it would be very difficult to apply it without the aid of a small spinning motor such as a rod dryer as it takes up 8 hours before it sets up enough to hang. I usually do one before I go to bed and the next morning carefully hang it up in my workshop and start another. It takes 24 hours to not leave fingerprints in it and 48 before it's hard enough to fish with. I think for this particular plug you should use 2 part epoxy either 5 or 30 min. I build my plugs completely first and paint last, that way I can hold them with a pair of vice grips by the end loop where the treble goes. Brush the epoxy on with an acid swab brush and keep turning the plug over every 30 seconds or so until it sets up. If you put the vice grips on the edge of a table or workbench you can just flip them over. 5 min. epoxy would be quicker but you have a limited amount of time to get all of the epoxy on the plug and it will probably start to set up before the epoxy really get to flow very much. 30 min. will require a little more attention but you'll have plenty of time to brush on the epoxy and it will flow nicely. I'm going to talk to John about doing a series of photos of a plug being envirotexed from start to finish, I just haven't had a chance. Been really into this making molds thing. Good Luck and if you need any more answers don't hesitate to ask. ...mrpogie
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