After many discussions with other walleye run anglers I decide to "tackle" making a mould for 5/8 ths egg sinkers.. After three prototype I got them to weight.. Now I have a three cavity mould... It sure does beat pouring them one at a time..
egg sinker mould
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Here it is.. It measures 3x4 5/8 thick per side.. It does have two sets of cavities.. The first one that I cut had my tool offsets to small and the sinkers came out .678 ounces.. So I adjusted offset and machined other side of mold.. These weigh .605.. Added engraving weight inched up to .61.. I do have to take the engraving deeper because the numbers don't consistently cast that you can read them..
The machining was done using autocad/and autocam.. It was a real challenge to draw the sinkers and then transfer that to the mold blank.
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Here it is.. It measures 3x4 5/8 thick per side.. It does have two sets of cavities.. The first one that I cut had my tool offsets to small and the sinkers came out .678 ounces.. So I adjusted offset and machined other side of mold.. These weigh .605.. Added engraving weight inched up to .61.. I do have to take the engraving deeper because the numbers don't consistently cast that you can read them..
The machining was done using autocad/and autocam.. It was a real challenge to draw the sinkers and then transfer that to the mold blank.
You did a hell of a job Don. Im glad I got some from you. I've been a pouring fool this week at work since the boss is in Daytona. Im trying to pour enough 1/2 and 3/8 for 6 of us that fish daily