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02-16-2004, 04:03 PM
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Lip hell revisited
I got some colorado blades to use as sufster lips, the sz 6 blades bend good, but with the sz 4 & 5 the finish peels off. I was think about coating the whole blade with a thin coat of epoxy after shaping/drilling it. Since the blade is pretty deep I'm thinking it might be ok, anybody try epoxing lips of any kind? Is the epoxy even gonna stick?
Wouldnt mind making my own lips, but howd ya evenly pound that concave center?
Last edited by ferret; 02-16-2004 at 04:06 PM..
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02-16-2004, 04:08 PM
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Calling Jon The Fisherman
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I wouldn't worry about it. (If it were me anyway) I would just hit the bend with clear coat when clear coating the plug. If you epoxy the whole lip I think it would just peel off and look like chit. Could be wrong though.... 
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02-16-2004, 04:47 PM
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REDNECK Plugger
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Or....
NJTackle is supposed have theirs up and running today / tomorrow.
Think Salty sells too. (his is prolly stolen though)  |
Hank
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02-16-2004, 08:54 PM
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Re: Lip hell revisited
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Originally posted by ferret
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Wouldnt mind making my own lips, but howd ya evenly pound that concave center?
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Have not done lips, but I have done spoons from stainless. Take a piece of 2x4 and carve the shape you want for the lip. Cut the stainless to the appropriate size. Hold in the carved area and beat with a ball peen hammer until the lip is the right shape. Crude, but works.
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02-16-2004, 08:58 PM
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jiggy
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02-16-2004, 11:31 PM
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Thats the old iron age method I'm sure you got a much better way to do them  My spoons got little dents in them from the hammer. Fine for a spoon. Your lips look waaaaay better 
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02-16-2004, 11:42 PM
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REDNECK Plugger
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Ahh home made stuff
I made a small handfull beating my stainless over a 2" trailer hitch ball in a vise. Worked great but then had to buff out all the hammer marks  and by the time I was done with everything I had to try to bend the kerf flat it all kinda buckled. Worked but way crude. Rather sit and wait for a pro to make em |
Hank
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02-17-2004, 02:11 AM
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Speaking of spoons, I thinking about cutting the SS into shape and then placing it in between 2 old spoons (the eating kind) and then pounding the spoons together, dunno if the spoons will hold up.
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02-17-2004, 09:45 AM
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Ferret, do the 2x4 trick for the spoons You won't need to buff out the hammer dents for the spoon blanks.
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