epoxy drying gadget

Fishing Saltwater Fly Fishing
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i’m finally going to break down and buy something to help dry my epoxy flies. staying true to my cheap nature, i have no intention of paying $50 plus for some battery powered piece of junk. any suggestions on making one? i’ve heard rotissery motors are good, but it’s not a very common yard sale item. anyone have a tip for an electric motor (plug in) that would fit the bill???

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dave
watch for old sewing machines. Trash days in a nice neighborhood can be very productive. Take the foot pedal as well.

Also great for wrapping rods.

Larry

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Cabela’s has a dryer motor for 22.99 in the tackle craft catalog. Buy a foam disk at your local craft store

Bill

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Dave,

This might help…

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Then four months later… [url=http://globalflyfisher.com/tiebetter/epoxy_rotor/:a645e]http://globalflyfisher.com/tiebetter/epoxy_rotor/[/url:a645e]

Personally I went out and bought a Stonefly driers for about $40

JME
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thanks guys! bill, i checked out that motor and found one on ebay for $10; JME, i’ll use the plans you gave the link to make the set up. and, larry, liked your idea but figured i’d better not take apart the bride’s sewing machine…

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Dave,

When you get this puppy put together, please share some pictures with the rest of your bargain-basement compatriots. I’ve been planing to make one of these for the last year and a half.

Excellent choice on the bride’s sewing machine, BTW! 8T

You had better learn to be a happy camper. You only get one try at this campground and it’s a real short camping season.

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There is a guy who sells on eBay and direct. He has motors and complete kits for drying machines. Very good prices! His name is John Fleisher and he is great to do business with. His email is:
calljmf@sbcglobal.net

Joe

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I was going to try sticking my epoxy’s in the side wall of my truck tire and drive slowly around the block a couple times. That might work.

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Splitditch,

I don’t think that even Dave himself has thought of that particular solution. Congratulations, you’ve out Daved even Dave! 8T

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Pictures??? Micus is too cheap to buy a camera!AAARRRGGGHHHH! Ah hell Dave, go ahead and wreck the bride’s sewing machine…will make a fine story for next month (when you get out of the hospital!)

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Micus,
Can you let the fly dangle off your nose? It would dry from all the hot air in no time LOL

jed

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Dave

My son and I built this in about 10 minutes and it cost less than 30.00 Now we were able to buy the stuff on sale, but if you shop around it is easy to find. The styrofoam disk are 8" in diameter and this thing works great.
The disk clear 2 fly lines stacked on top of each other.
Everything you need was in our Universal Rotisserie Kit except for the disk and we got them at the craft store.

Harold

Before anyone gets the wrong idea those flies were not tied by me, the mullet fly was tied by Flats Dude and the gold fly was tied by Ed.

[This message has been edited by Harold Hattaway (edited 20 July 2005).]

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fly fisher joe–that is exactly who i bought the motor from…but i wish i would have thought of that tire idea…

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or… … you could perhaps invest the same amount of money or less and buy some UV protective goggles, a UV Cure Lamp and some Loon UV Knot Sense. No mixing or fusing really. I know a pro-tyer who marches his batches of surf flies out into the sun for cure.

The UV heads are cured instantly in an ultra controllable manner-never a run or drip or excessive wicking into wings and hackles.

Also-the Poly materials in UV Knot Sense are water/gin clear and don’t yellow. Also-there are no bubbles in the heads. Just really nice stuff to work with.

One drawback is that the heads made using of UV Knot Sense are not as bullet proof as Epoxy-as the UV poly is slightly softer by nature. It is still very rigid. I overcoat it with clear finger nail polish. If you happen to backcast into boulders alot-you may see a difference in toughness eventually. Not a big issue for the fish.

Just a suggestion to consider a somewhat newish and non-traditional method to do the same job better.

Rich

[This message has been edited by flymaker2 (edited 21 July 2005).]

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I simply hook the fly onto the eraser on one of those troll head pencils. Then I spin it between my palms. I dry my flies and relieve stress all at the same time. For some flies I can even use the hair from the pencil.