How to make fishing sinkers easy and cheap

[Music] hey guys Oh snowy day out here today they found a lot of rain this week and the rivers are pretty much blown out so fishings gonna be super tough this week so we thought we'd take advantage and work on our equipment a little bit today we're gonna get stock piled up on some sinkers and today I'm going to take you through the process showing you how you can make those really cheap and pretty kind of fun actually to do so I'll show you everything you need to do to make these things alright in my boat I keep this little Tupperware thing right here full of sinkers different kinds of stuff right now I kind of got them laid out by different sizes just to see what sizes I'm getting low on I noticed I only had about three number 5's left there so have a mode for those so today we'll make up some fives and I'll show you guys how to do this I first off what you're gonna need is a is a pot this is a little pot here I got it Cabela's I think it was like 50 50 something bucks or something like that just has a little heating element in it right there I got some LED ingots right here got several those and I got some little beating other sinkers and stuff I never used I thought I just melt them down that way I could have some more what I'm using this right here is my mold that I use this particular one for no real sinkers it makes threes fours and fives and always keep you a couple pair pliers and some snips here and we'll show you about using those here in a minute what I got here got some little coat hangers are cut off what we do is we'll stick these in here I'll show you how to do it here in a second just a little bit of safety for you it's a good idea to wear safety glasses when doing this and make sure make sure your Glade is completely dry this stuff can blow up if it's if it's damp or wet or anything so make sure it's good and dry now what we'll do we'll go ahead and plug this pod up and take about ten or twelve minutes get it warmed up we'll let it be heating up guys another important factor in making this make sure you have a well-ventilated area today we're standing out here on the edge of the garage got a breeze blowing through here this stuff puts off a lot of toxic toxic fumes so want to make sure we're not breathing that now are you spending about seven or eight minutes you can see it's starting to melt down pretty good there we'll give it just a couple more minutes all right looks like it's melted down pretty good what we're gonna do is we're gonna take this old spoon here we'll just kind of skim the surface right here get all this little trash off the top all right stuff you see floating on top it's impure metal and get all that out then we'll have a lot cleaner we're about ready to pour all right we got our lid ready to pour next thing we need to do is I come over here and get our mold we need to let this thing warm up I'll use a little torch and heat it up a lot of people set it up here and let it warm up you can do that as well what I'll do take my torch here I'm gonna be using this back when out here this one's for number five today it's gonna pick this up real good and make sure there's no damage masini keeping this inside right here real hot and warm right here that helps keep all your lid as it melts pour on down in there where they don't harden before it gets all the way down in there make sure you get it real warm there all right next thing I want to do after I've got it all warmed up here see there's some little grooves in there I'm gonna stick that little piece of clothes hanger in there make sure it's in the grooves and we ready to pull one get my part supporting their see how hard it how fast it hardens on top there that's why we have to keep it on top of that real warm make sure it all gets down in there well let this thing set about 15 seconds or so all right we'll open it up there that's what we got right there we'll get our pliers lock it right work it back and forth till it comes out and I got my snips I'll just cut off all that excess excess right there there you hit well sit her down let it cool I'll grab some of these parts that fell off I put it right back in the pot another good tips remember I always keep left melted lay it in your pot because if you empty it out it's gonna take longer for everything to heat up but if you keep putting in there a little bit at a time it'll melt a whole lot quicker for you let's get another one ready all right make sure it's a little bit loose there yeah Sam was a man ago will let it sit about 15 seconds there that way would be good and hard coconut clip our ages off and some of them will turn out better than others or to put our excess back in the pot [Music] always make sure first thing you do is get this wire out because a little bit they tend to be a little easier to get out when they're still hot then you can trim your edges like I said some of them will come out prettier than others but I don't think that catfish is gonna care what it looks like there you have it guys fun little wave spin they even in save yourself some money too hope y'all enjoyed it and uh make sure you hit that subscribe button and we'll see you in the next one

Channel: Fin Seeker TV

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Keywords: catfish sinkers, how to make sinkers, hagan grubbs fishing, diy making fishing sinkers, make sinkers cheap, easy way to make sinkers, steps to make sinkers

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Length: 10min 56sec (656 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 07 2020