Tail weighted plugs and grommet Q's

[spence]

Oh plug gurus...

I made up a mess of needles, and weighted them in a manner that seemed appropriate. The tail grommets I've been using are the nickle ones like NJT and Salty sell, they have a small lip and are fairly large in diameter. I guess they are more sized for the nose...

What I don't want to do is drill out a substantial amount of lead in the tail weight to make the grommet fit.

So should I plan for this and use a larger tail weight with the assumption I'm going to lose a tad?

The batch I have already made are about 2 ounces. Should I just skip the tail grommet on these to keep the weight right, or would that cause serious paint job issues later?

Thanks - spence



-spence

[ferret]

Buy some smaller grommets, I know NJ tackle sells smaller diameter tail grommets for which you only need to drill out a tiny bit of lead.

[Nebe]

Spence if you load on the epoxy around your tailwrap you really dont need a grommet. This of course screws you if you want to re-wire one day but how often does that happen?

[spence]

Thanks...I was going for the all nickle thing, but I've been unable to locate any of the better grommets in nickle. I'll epoxy these and get some of the brass ones for the next batch...

-spence

[tobias]

Hey Spence - Pm me your address. I'll mail you some of the nickle plated tail grommets.

Tobias