WOW...two great ideas...Lynn: are you calling yourself a "cheapo" with a shop like that ??? fantastic idea !!!
and Billy : I will be using a shot glass from now on . I just tried a double shot glass...fits exactly and Soooo easy to clean.
Even us old guys learn new tricks.

Tight Lines
Tight Wraps
Fishin'Stix by Fred

That is ingenious. Now I'll have to figure out how I'm going to put an arm on mine.
Thanks

Ken,

Yep, that's the way I do it!!

Bill in WV

Billy, You can spend a little over five hundred and get one of the gallon dispensers with the static mixer and not worry about the ball bearing or air bubbles. Jesse

I bought a Flex Coat 18 rpm. drying motor from Custom Tackle Supply and bent the metal frame back to the correct angle. Then I removed the chuck, took off the rubber collar and set it on a flat level spot. I epoxied a 1 oz. mixing cup in the center. I measure finish into a new 1 oz. cup and drop it into the permanent cup, drop in a 9/16 or 5/8 in. ball bearing and mix for 3 - 4 minutes. I pour this onto aluminum foil and with my brush, sorry, no spatula, (spatulas are for Rod Bond) I push the bearing to the top edge of the pool of finish to drain. After coating wraps I wet a paper towel with 91% Isopropyl alcohol, clean the bearing and put it in the permanent cup and cover with a sandwich baggie to keep dust away. Great magazine, Great site!

If at first you don't succeed, go fishing, then try, try again.

No mixing ball.

Like Marc Morrone I gave up using a mixing ball and opted to go with a stationary mixing stick on an alligator clip. The advantage is not using the mixing ball, which in my case I was a 50-cal lead musket ball. I toss the mixing stick when its done mixing. An added advantage to using this method is that you can hold the mixing cup absolutely upright and fill to near the top of the cup if needed. Otherwise you have to tilt the cup to make the mixing ball roll around the cup as the cup turns.

Lou

I had tried all of these different methods and I am convinced that none of my epoxy was mixed as well as the Pac-Bay machine does it with the mixing rod. I get less bubbles than I ever did with a ball bearing in an old rotiserrie motor I made up and we won't even talk about the mixing by hand, So I for one will be getting in touch with mark at @#$%& and ordering a couple of extras in case I have a "Senior Moment".

I had tried all of these different methods and I am convinced that none of my epoxy was mixed as well as the Pac-Bay machine does it with the mixing rod. I get less bubbles than I ever did with a ball bearing in an old rotiserrie motor I made up and we won't even talk about the mixing by hand, So I for one will be getting in touch with mark at @#$%& and ordering a couple of extras in case I have a "Senior Moment".