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3 hours ago, salokcinnodrog said:

The other thing is cork varies in how much it absorbs, with cork balls you can feel the difference by touch or sight, whereas with cork dust you can't know. 

It also then dries out, so may actually cause baits to split and crack.

I know we all like a gadget, but I still roll my pop-ups by hand or on the rolling table. I can get the paste amount right for the pop-up size i like, either a 16mm or a tiny 10mm (which i hate rolling).

 

Despite making my own pop-ups for alternative hookbaits, I do buy pop-ups myself.

 

I use Rod Hutchinson Monster Crab,  KMG and Infusion as my main baits, so I have pop-ups in the MC and KMG. The KMG I have in both main bait colour and as a high visibility pink.

 

hello sir,

you are absolutely right, but i am hoping, that if they work in my own fishing they could become a little side hussle, never know? so looking at cost effective ways to produce without compromising on quality. i think CB would be viable but only in bult at very large QTY's

 

thank you all for your help on this subject and giving me the time.

i think i have all i need in regards of advice, so will keep you all posted on how i get on.

again, thank you all very much!

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Just now, salokcinnodrog said:

Quite possibly!

Cork dust or granules takes in a bit of liquid, and does mess up the rolling, making consistency difficult to achieve.

Your description also sounded a bit wet to roll, but I could be wrong.

You almost want the mix too dry to roll!

 

You are probably or possibly better going to corkball or a dedicated pop-up mix. 

Thanks for comming back to me on this and ok, understood. 

The thing is, Cork balls are so expensive compared to crushed Cork. 1litre of crushed Cork is around £4.50 and you can get 6 100g mixes out of that when only using 15g. With pop up mix, when taking on water will slowely sink as we all know. I want to try and get it to work with crushed Cork as its cost effective as well as garrenteed buoyancy. 

 

It's a tough one. 

 

 

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14 hours ago, framey said:

Try it by hand and see it it still splits ?

I have a couple of presses for pop ups but they are usually made around a corkball  so you don’t use too much heavy paste 

Thank you sir, ill have a try again. i need to get some small eggs have ran out, but ill see what results come of it. Thank you all for your time and help!

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This is what keeps happening. Even adding a bit of hwmpnoil to the roller to prevent sticking still ends up like this. 

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hi Kev,

first of all thankyou for coming back to me on this.

so the issue is that its like that tacky sticky wet paste feel, like wet moist wet play dough that sticks to everything, not a smooth pliable paste.

you honestly think its the size of the wet egg content?

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Hi guys,

Hoping for some help.

I have been making a mix to create cork granule pop ups however, for the life of me i cannot get the mix to dry enough to be used in the CCmoore cork ball roller. when making the 16mm baits they dont form and just split within the bait maker, as though its too wet.

i am only using 10ml of liquid into a 1 egg mix and using the specific hard hook bait mix from ccmoore.

 

please see recipe below:

40g of flavoured powder

45G of hard hook bait mix

15g of cork dust

10ml of liquid

1 egg

paste mix sealed into a bag for 30 mins

 

Am i doing something wrong? All help is greatly appreciated.