then removed the pellets.
Fitting The Lead Pellets to The Lures
It was now time to drill holes in the lure blanks to accept the lead pellets. Each of the pellets was a different length and so required holes of different depth to
be drilled. Prior to drilling each hole I marked the
length of each pellet off against the 18mm diameter
drill bit using masking tape and then drilled a hole to
the depth of this mark on the corresponding lure. I
drilled the holes about 2mm-3mm deeper than the
length of the pellets to allow for glue and filler.
With the holes for the lead pellets all drilled out I was
now ready to go ahead and fit the pellets into each
lure. At this point I realised that I had made another
mistake - the 18mm diameter pellets would not easily
go into the 18mm diameter holes in the lure blanks. I
really should have made the pellets 2mm smaller in
diameter than the holes that were drilled in the lure
blanks - lesson learned! I solved this problem by taking my hammer and tapping on the sides of the pellets
which both smoothed the sides of the pellets a little
and also reduced their diameter a little. I still needed
to use a hammer to tap the pellets into the lure blanks
- not very clever - but it got the job done.