Posted By: Jigfish
Best Way to Med Plastics - 06/01/15 11:46 AM
Buying some swim baits. What is the best way to repair the holes from hooks.
Posted By: ChuChu1
Re: Best Way to Med Plastics - 06/01/15 12:00 PM
Worm Welder or super glue
Posted By: TanHner36
Re: Best Way to Med Plastics - 06/01/15 12:09 PM
I've heard that Mend-It plastic glue on tackle warehouse works really well but I've never used it.
Posted By: JohnButte
Re: Best Way to Med Plastics - 06/01/15 03:13 PM
Mend it works really well, I use on swimbaits frequently.
Posted By: TBassYates
Re: Best Way to Med Plastics - 06/01/15 09:26 PM
Tom,
I used to have a small tool that I bought that was made just for this and ran off of batteries kind of like a small soldering iron. I used it all of the time. One of the biggest bass I ever caught in a tournament was caught on a floating worm that I had repaired 3 times back in the day when the Fliptail Lizards were not being made. I still have a plastic bag with about 100 CrawTubes I need to fix now that I am doing a little more fishing these days. Added a few more after fishing Cedar Creek yesterday. I will look and see if I can find it but it was pretty easy to plug up holes and repair tears. It also gave a kind of funky neat look to some colors of baits. If I find it I will let you know and you are welcome to it.
Posted By: Bassalong
Re: Best Way to Med Plastics - 06/02/15 01:58 AM
Oatey 31013 PVC cement. It has a tendency to gel after several uses, but if you cut the dauber off and pour small amounts out of the can rather than dipping a brush repeatedly into the can when applying it, this is minimized.
Posted By: Mark Perry
Re: Best Way to Med Plastics - 06/02/15 02:01 AM
Mend It is awesome as is the Spike It brand soft plastic glue. Both work well on hollow body frogs too.