August 26, 2016

Rotating Lure Drying Rack

STL files for this Rack are available at Printables and can be found HERE.

This is a Motorized Rotating Drying Rack used for getting an even coat of the sealing epoxy used on fishing lures after painting. It uses a geared motor to rotate the rack and lures continuously while the epoxy dries to form a nice even coat.

The use of epoxy to seal lures is common practice but if you use a thin epoxy’s like EnviroTex’s Lite Pour-On High Gloss Finish epoxy it is so thin that if just left to dry in one position gravity will do it’s thing and the epoxy will pool to the lowest spot of the lure forming drips as seen above.

A spinning drying rack system is used to keep the coat of epoxy even as it dries. Most of the homemade racks used for this practice just use large clips to hold the lure by the lip but the 3D Printed Crankbait Lures I designed have the entire lip painted so I came up with this drying rack that uses extension springs to hold the lure by it’s loops instead.

  This rack will hold up to 5 lures at a time for drying.

Exploded view of all of the parts.

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