Im needing a cheap fly turner for drying epoxy flies. Wont be using it much but If someone has one they dont need i might be interested. preferably battery powered & in the 20$ range.
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Im needing a cheap fly turner for drying epoxy flies. Wont be using it much but If someone has one they dont need i might be interested. preferably battery powered & in the 20$ range.
See if you can find a rotisserie motor from a BBQ grill at a local garage sale. It can be mounted pretty easily on a board, and fixed up with a styrofoam disc to hold your flies. Best Regards......
Just do what I did, make your own turner out of the motor in an old microwave...
Yep the BBQ Rotisserie work perfectly.....I use one, have it mounted on a 1"x4"x14" board and is mounted to my left of the tying Desk, not the station.
Turns nice and slow.Great for drying epoxy flies. I've never heard of using the microwave motor...thats interesting
just found a motor that might work... recon 4 rpm is too slow ?
That should be fine....
You might try here for a motor http://www.surpluscenter.com/electric.asp
I have used them numerous times with great results.
It is a little difficult to get around their site, but you should find some for $5 or less
Well, built one but steadin of the motor being 4rpm it was more like 40... Slung glue all over the place... A little even hit me in the teeth... Went & put the whole thing in file 13 after shootin it with the cannon fer slingin glue all over the room...
Better yet, a lawn ornament motor, at 6 rpm its perfect and should be able to find them yard sales now. Took a piece of 3/8 plexiglass and heated it carefully across the center and bent the to make the base and platform to mount the motor. Get a piece of round foam and and connect to the shaft.
you can also find disco ball motors that work...i haxe one somewhere....
While it's not battery operated, mine was made with the motor out of an old microwave... works great!
Then I gave away my BBQ Rotisserie setup, as it's loud, "grating" sound drove me nuts...
I made one of these a couple years ago, but it won't hold but 9 flies now. I need one that holds more at a time. So I am looking for a good motor too. That Surplus Center has some good stuff it looks like. Now if I could just figure out which one to go with....
Well, it's double your price range but...
OR
A 110 volt option for $26.
Bugman did you find the motor your looking for yet? If not I have one you can have but its not battery run. Shoot me your snail mail addy if interested. All I ask is that some time you pay it forward to somebody else... keep the cycle going.
A great place to find little things like this is at American Science and Surplus http://www.sciplus.com/index.cfm They're currently out of stock on they're little 4 rpm turner that runs on a D-Cell battery, but they also have others.
39639 D-CELL MOTOR
Fatman
Well, I guess with no further posts on this thead, none of us know whether bugman got set up with his fly drier or not. I was intending to build one and send it to him free...because he has been good to me and is a friend of mine. But I haven't gotten around to it. Too disorganized and too much on my plate. Maybe I just send him a motor. The rotissere would be perfect. I haven't plugged mine in to hear it. I know of a past one someone else had....noisy also. I think mine quiet. But would have to find it and plug in to find out. But the one that was on a rod wrapper I came in contact with...I put a mark on it and checked it. It was 6rpm and I think that would be perfect.
Anywhoooo....Mr. Ivan....let us know please.
Lotta people trying to help you...but we know nothing at the moment....at least I don't...from reading this thread.
I was over at Bugman's house last night, and forgot to ask him about it. He did not show me any fly dryer, so he probably never got one. He didn't mention one either. He doesn't come on FAOL as much anymore, so hopefully he will see this soon. If not ask him about it on Skype.
If he was home last night...where the heck was he? WE are suppoded to tie on Tue nite at 8pm his time. I sat and tied the fly by myself. I was on skype for over two hours and never heard from him. I assumed he was at work. If he was home...I am a bit ticked he didn't bother to inform me of his activities......he could have at least called.....
I sat here on skype for over two hours....wondering about him, and if he was ever going to come online. I went to a lot of trouble to have the hooks, and and material gathered up to tie with him...because as you well know....I am in total chaos at my home. It is a mess. And I have to get it organized and cleaned up befor he gets here. I am fast running out of time....
Thanks Kelly
Come here with Ivan....we rip some lips!
OOOOOPS! MY BAD. Guess I have to eat some more crow here. geeeze I hate it when this happens. taste is awful....
I forgetted about the "OTHER" conference website! I sat here all that time, with my mind on other things and didn't even think of it. Wow. Happens to me all the time now. I need a caretaker. Seriously. I am getting awful tired of eating crow. I need someone to watch over me and manage my life for me.
I apologize sincerely to Bugman. I think he could have called....but he might have just been too busy with company and tying online with others. So my bad. Duh....
I could edit the above post or delete it.....but not. I will take the heat. I deserve it. And I owe him the apology online. Hope he takes it well. He is my favorite sporting gent to fly fish with.
I will let him respond to this. I think I will stay out of that. :-)
I built 2 dryers, one for Warren P and one for myself. I had close to $24.00 in each dryer for the motor, cord, wood, foam pad, PVC 1" end cap and not shown in the pictures the alligator clips used to hold your files. I found the foam pads at Wal-Mart back in the hardware section; they are used for moving furniture around in your house by putting them under the legs of the furniture so you can move it on carpet or wooding floors, and I thought this was a clever find. The alligator clips I purchased from Radio Shack and what I did was buy some heavy straight pins cut them down to size and by using a crimping tool I secured them to the ends of the alligator clips. Now all you need to do is stick it in the foam wheel (pad) and round and round they go!! Now for mounting the foam wheel (pad) to the shaft take a 1" hole-saw and drill a hole in the CENTER of the foam wheel (pad), then take the 1" PVC end cap and drill a hole one size smaller then the shaft size (in the CENTER too keep in balance) this will give a secure fit on the shaft, then place the PVC end cap on the shaft and insert the foam wheel (pad) on the end cap. There you go!! really nothing more than that to making a dryer.
NICE!
Thank you for taking the time to share and post. Terffic information for a tinker bell like me. I would have never come up with one that nice. Wish there was a pic with the alligator clips though. How many did you get installed on the wheel?
Bugman will need as much as possible cause his wife and him boaf make poppers and such. He probably needs TWO driers.
Thank you again for posting. When he gets here he will have his choice of three different motors....and I now have the instructions on how to make a good one for myself.
Thanks again for taking the time....and sharing.....it's all good...
Thanks Jim, When I get home I will post a picture of the alligator clips mounted on the foam wheel, I believe you can get 12 comfortably on the foam wheel, they are 5” diameter and this would allow room for larger flies. I only have 8 on mine at the present time, I guess you could put as many as you want. You just need to make sure your spacing of the alligator clips is equal to balance the wheel.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gemrod
Jim,
I just added the extra pictures of the alligator clips.
Hey thank you Popperfly. Nice. I remember that is the way Bugman said he wanted his drier.....clips sticking straight out from the disc as opposed to parrallel to the bench.
BTW am I in doo doo. I see where Mr. Bugman did indeed call me last evening. See it on skype....6:32p. Man I really made a mistake. Must have been when I was outside in the RV getting some fly tying material.
'tis ok. Mr. Bugman is way cool. I am not in too much trouble.
Thanks again Mr. Popperfly. Now I know pretty much how to build one. I would have gotten one done....but nice to get construction instructions.
Jim