12-25-2003, 02:20 PM
a less expencive rought is to buy clear plastic bubbles and use a small diamiter drill and poke a hole in the bubble and use round tooth pick as plugs.
when drilling is best to place the bubbles in a vice using a lether or card board product protector to keep from crushing and scratching your bubbles. also use side cutters, (wire cutter) to cut round tooth picks off to lenth.
for our macheining buddies around here that is a .010 pressed fit. on the drill size.
dont grill in the side but twards the big round side on the round section. there is more plastic there and will handle the preasure of the swelling toothpick.
make extra tooth pic plugs incase you want to ajust your weight of the bubble.
tieing your line to a plastic bubble alone will travle farther than you can see a clear plastic bubble.
the cost of the home made variety will run under 50cents apeice if you buy the bubbles in bulk. other wise they are about 55 cents each.
I have been using the same bubble for 30+ years replaceing the eye screws once every 5 years or so, (if it starts looking dingy and fealing rough)
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when drilling is best to place the bubbles in a vice using a lether or card board product protector to keep from crushing and scratching your bubbles. also use side cutters, (wire cutter) to cut round tooth picks off to lenth.
for our macheining buddies around here that is a .010 pressed fit. on the drill size.
dont grill in the side but twards the big round side on the round section. there is more plastic there and will handle the preasure of the swelling toothpick.
make extra tooth pic plugs incase you want to ajust your weight of the bubble.
tieing your line to a plastic bubble alone will travle farther than you can see a clear plastic bubble.
the cost of the home made variety will run under 50cents apeice if you buy the bubbles in bulk. other wise they are about 55 cents each.
I have been using the same bubble for 30+ years replaceing the eye screws once every 5 years or so, (if it starts looking dingy and fealing rough)
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