How to make artificial fishing bait for little to no $

Step 6 Making the plunger

So, you have your heating element. Now youre going to make the plunger for it. This is what you will push down to force the plastic into your mold. Get the copper pipe and the epoxy putty. This doesnt require much putty. A ball about the size of a marble works fine. Mix the putty well, as according to directions. Next, place this on the tip of the copper pipe, and form it onto the pipe so that it kind of looks like the plunger of a syringe, and is slightly bigger than the hole on the end of the heating element. After you do that, gently push the pipe, putty end first, into the element so that it forms the putty to a tight fit inside the element. Pull the pipe back out and let the putty harden on the end.

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[ZIGGYDAN]

this looks like a fantastic instructable, but i myself would be a bit cautious about pushing a metal pipe into any electrical device, if my glue gun had a faulty or defective element or was damaged from being dismantled then there could be a serious potential for electrocution, so when i make this i might substitute this for a more insulated plunger or perhaps some sort of composite material, this simple idea is perfect for a plastic extruder that i require to recydle plastic bags.