plug spinner

[blackeye]

After seeing about 30 hours of work blemished by envirotex buildup on the tails of some plugs, I am wanting to make a spinner-fairly cheap. Any suggestions?

[Westport Jeff]

I made my own for spinning epoxy head fly's. I bought an electric rotisserie motor from Lowes. Runs nice and slow.

I plan to make one for plugs using the same motor and a Ferris wheel similar to what I saw on some of the other posts.

[Nebe]

blackeye, you can come down and see the one I just made... It works great

[Jigman]

I picked up a rotisserie motor at Homies along with some PVC pipes, springs, and cotter pins and built this one. Holds 12 plugs.

Jigman

[Nebe]

Jigman

do you ever have probems with plugs that have lots of lead in them not wanting to stay put in the spinner? I did some poppers that were loaded with lead and they didnt want to cooperate in the spinner so I had to flip them manually...

[Jigman]

No problems so far. I done plugs up to 10 inches and 5 oz (pikie) on that spinner. You just have to make sure that the plug is held tight. Most of my poppers are tail weighted, so I add the weight after the epoxy.

Jigman

[blackeye]

WHAT KIND OF rpm'S AM i LOOKING FOR?
HP?

[Tagger]

another way to go ..I'm trying my rod box now..It gets obout 104 degrees wich is a little to warm ..I'm still messing with the heat.dust free when covered..I didn't like flipping them,epoxy on hands,,don't like gloves,,didn't like dropping them ...My ferris wheel was ok but I didn't like working through the spokes and I needed more heat anyway ....still playing around with it ..

[chumbucket]

Nice...loks like Christmas all over again

[Diamond Tackle]

I dunno,
Reminds me of pretty girls walking down the Strip in Vegas .

[Striperknight]

That thing is big. It does look like x-mas.

[capesams]

looks like one of mulder's fx tv shows....aliens in a incubator.

[Krispy]

A plug spinner I used successfully was also a wheel design. I used a 18 rpm motor (rotisserrie would work) and 2" pink foam board from HD. I cut it into a large circle, using a round garbage can lid for a template, on the bandsaw. I drilled a hole on center. My motor had a threaded arbor to which I put 2 large washers on either side of the foam to keep it from slipping and threaded it tight.
I stuck cut wire hangers into the thru-wire holes, epoxied the plug and then stuck the wire deep into the edge of the foam till there was approx 2-3" space between them. Never had one fall out, and you could do 30-40 plugs at a time.

I did notice some of you wire your plugs before epoxy. This system would not work in that case.
Krispy

[Slipknot]

Krispy, that sounds like an excellant way off doing it, since you can only add the finish one plug at a time, that makes it easy to place the plug on the contraption.

[Krispy]

Thanks Slip. The only drawback is if your correcting the finish on one you have to pull it out then stick it back into the foam. In Taggers pic, you could work on the finish as its rotating

[Tagger]

I think I've tried alot of different methods ,,I like my finish because of the beating it takes,,I just wish it would "behave" like it did last summer..I had this box anyway so I gave it a shot ...I think I got it ...

[ChrisH]

Looks good Tagger, great idea!

Chris