PS: have a cold piece of metal and just push the end of the hot mono onto it if you want a flat eye.
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Joyce Westphal <westpha...@gmail.com>wrote: > I melt with the cautery with no problems. Any left over plastic will > simply burn off the end of it when you are done..just push the on button > with nothing on the end. I don't think the cautery cares what i burns and > melts. When you use the cautery,just hold it really close to the end of the > mono and it will ball up. Joyce > > > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Rodger Oleson <rodger...@argontech.net>wrote: > >> Thanks, DonO and Joyce, Maybe I need to explain further. I too can and >> do make mono eyes from several sizes of monofilament line. That is not the >> problem. The problem is getting the mono to fuse together. I'm gonna try >> and acquire some different brands of mono to try, but of the four I've tried >> so far, they want to melt away from each other when the ends are heated >> while holding them in a pair of needlenose pliers, hemostats, or tweezers. >> I will go dig out some of my weedeater cutting line to see if that works, >> and will report back. I have several sizes of weedeater line, but may not >> have any small enough. We'll see. >> BTW, can you melt the mono with a cautery without messing up the tool? >> >> Rodger >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" >> group. >> >> To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en >> >> VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com
