I bought a fragile titanium spring bobber and I wasn’t happy with being able to see it. I went to fleet farm and bought this blaze orange spray paint thinking I could spray it orange. Paint won’t stick to it. Any help on how to get it a brighter color? Maybe I’m using the wrong Paint? Maybe there are better spring Bobbers out there? Thanks. Shawn
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Sign/marking paint won’t work.Neither will powder paint.I would do a light coat of a paint designed for plastic.Or plastidip?Do a thin coat of white first,then blaze orange over that.
it will be hard to find a paint to stay on spring stock as with the bending it will break But there is a paint with flex coat that might be worth a shot! made to coat plastic bumpers on automobiles
Maybe a stain would work better.
Plasti dip or liquid electrical tape will be flexible enough. You may be limited in color options with those tho.
Maybe touch up paint you’d put on a car. Can get the cheap little lipstick type of case
Frabill titanium spring bobbers are the best. Plasticoat will ruin it. I wouldnt alter it at all. Sorry no suggestions.
i have put a bright colored nail polish on other brands. That seems to stick better.
Go to the Dollar store and get some bright colored finger nail polish. I have orange, yellow, chartreuse green and red. It is amazing how many uses you will find for them. I recently used them on my ice spud, red stripe at 2 inch mark, yellow at 3 inch mark and green at 4 inch mark. Stop, caution, go. I also have the old I-pilot remote. With the all black rubber buttons. I put a red dot on my spot lock, green on the rabbit and yellow on advance auto pilot buttons. Really helps find the right button quick.
Glow in the dark nail polish. uv light it then. Maybe!
Maybe the dye Pens that they use for plastic baits. I use the Clam Nitinol spring bobbers. They come with a bright colored bead. Its only the Bead that I care about the color on. Wire is black. Bead is orange or bright Green
Your going to find that in order to bring out the brightest color in a florescent paint, you need to first put down a light white undercoat.
I quit farting around painting spring bobbers, and just went to making my own with 6-8″ 27lb brown colored, single strand wire leader material and formed a loop that was 3-4″ long, and added a tiny bead to “hold the loop”, and then added either a florescent orange or yellow styrofoam body at the loop in the end. then added a dab of super glue to hold it all in place. You can make the loop as big as you want… The styrofoam body is the type used for making crawler harnesses for walleye fishing.
I then fly tie them to the end of the rod. Should the wire break for some reason, and they do, just cut the thread off and install another one… They work great for jig fishing, and you can go to a bit heavier wire to make one that’ll handle jigging spoons just as good.
Jim, do you have a picture you can post? Thanks. Shawn
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