Maggot & Method Feeders For Nowt'.

[Martin56]

Ey' Up again lads & lasses - yes it's me, playing again (now I have a Man Cave) Here's 2 Maggot & 1 Method feeders I made from bits which could have gone in the bin.

Left one is from a used, 12g CO2 air gun cartridge (end sawn off). Middle one is the Mouthpiece from an Inhaler & Right one is from a Sweetex dispenser. The "Inline" tubes for two of them are just Plastic, Swizzles Lolly sticks (they fit the generic Method & quick change beads perfectly)

The weights are from (Middle) an old 30 gram cage feeder. Right is from a cut down MFI flat pack spanner, both stuck on with a glue gun.

The Steel, plated, CO2 Cartridge has enough weight of its own to use "As Is". Just open up the cartridge piercing a bit  & squash the swivel eye to fit through, pass it down the bore & re-open the eye. (I just opened out the piercing with small centre punch by hand so it won't cause a sharp burr)

Maybe you know an Air Gunner to source the spent CO2 cartridges?? They can't be re-filled & are just thrown away.

 

Edited January 25 by Martin56

[Martin56]

Might need to make the the Lolly stick tube slightly bell mouthed at one end with a wooden skewer for a "lead in". That's all it needs!!

Edited January 25 by Martin56

[Martin56]

Here's 2 more Method Feeders, the yellow one is the top half of an 'Elbow Grease' spray. White one off a different spray.

Thought I'd put them on in, as yet, 'unpainted'.

 

Edited February 7 by Martin56

[chesters1]

You have tooooo much time now youve retired lol

Its like the close season of my yooof is back ,floats made of straws that fold in half fist strike and balsa pike lures pike break in half and laugh at you.

Not been down the river this winter most of the times its approaching me!

[BoldBear]

Martin, why don’t you get involved with making some decent Wagglers (Onions & straight & bodied), sticks, Avon’s etc. good ones are getting harder and harder to Source these days now that the Pole has become so common; and the parts are quite easily obtained from the bankside (wildfowl feathers) and from the web or hobby shops .

If I didn’t already have so many floats myself then that is what I might have started doing.

You might even become the new Andrew Field

 

Keith

Edited February 9 by BoldBear

[Martin56]

Hi Keith,

you mean like these??, a lot of the wagglers are out of plastic drinking straws. + a baiting Needle out of an Earwax removal tool handle & a Darning needle with the back of the eye cut off.

A lot of the 'Top and Bottom' (2nd pic') floats are out of various, Corporate, Logo'd Pens, which I conned from Reps over the years (They Never refused in case it helped, Oil the wheels towards making a sale) Ok, so very far from "Shop Finished", but all are "Water Tested" (In wife's Vases) & work very well.

The 3rd pic' are materials I'll be using Next.

Edited February 9 by Martin56