How to make your own Dive Weights from Fishing Sinkers - Spear and Clean
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- čas přidán 16. 07. 2024
- Turning old line fishing rubbish lead sinkers into dive weights for spearfishing, freediving and scuba diving.
I wanted to make this video to show you how easy it is to make lead dive weights at home. Hopefully it will encourage you to collect line fishing rubbish and turn it into something practical. Helping the marine environment and yourself in one action. Win win right?
So firstly please be careful when melting the lead it goes without saying how hot and damaging this could be. But the main thing i want to get at is to wear a proper mask.
If you are watching this video its because you probably do a form of diving.
Please please please take care of your lungs.
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All fish were of legal size and were speared for consumption, I have a NSW Fishing Licence and abide by catch size limits, daily takes and no fish zones. Over the past 5 years now I have made the commitment to no longer buy fish, so I only eat the fish i catch. Spearfishing is the most sustainable form of fishing on the planet, it is also the most environmentally friendly form of fishing.
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As a hunter and fisherman in the united states I have to say no other food harvesting activity compares in exploration, variety, action, physical skill, knowledge, beauty, danger, accomplishment and naturalism as spear fishing and harvesting from coral reefs and tropical seas. You are truly blessed
Absolutely! Im privileged to be able to be connected to nature and the environment the way i am
Good on ya Sam! Great use of some of the garbage you removed from the ocean. It's worth keeping the lures, hooks, tackle etc that is still in ok nick. You can put little kits together and sell them off. You'd never make a living from it, but it's not a bad little perk since you're there anyway. My partner and I bought our coffee machine off trash we collected from the ocean. Also, some of the lures work well on a home-made flasher. The swivels are also very useful for this.
Thanks Marty! Wait a go for you and your partner thats awesome, ill have to give it a go ive sold squid jigs in the past but that was all. One mans trash is another mans treasure hey
Hey Sam, if you started making more of these and sold them on your website, I would definitely buy them!
Awesome suggestion man, only drama would be shipping costs i reckon!
This was a great tutorial, thanks mate. I'm a diver of the non-spearfishing variety - on the treasure hunting side of the fence - but given I'm pulling a couple dive weight's worth of lead out with every single hunt, I figured it was time to do something about it! Cheers.
Thanks man, really appreciate the comment too! Let me know how you get on
nice, I have been wanting dive weights for a while!
Super fun to make just make sure you wear a mask haha
@@WetMammal oh yeah i have melted sinkers before gotta be super careful
Not as much lead in the Water over here, less people. But the local tyre shop provides us with a heap of lead wheel weights. More impurities but as you showed it all scapes off.
Going to try and go out by myself for the first tomorrow if the weather is good enough, wish me luck 🤙
Best of luck man, i hope you get a nice feed!
Nice mate, you made it look really easy 👌🏽
Thanks man, its actually a really easy process 🤙🏼
Thanks for another great video! Awesome work
Thanks man, appreciate the support too 🤙🏼
That's awesome! Funnily enough when I was younger we use to get scrap lead from tyre places and pour our own sinkers, which I'm sure we got snagged on reef and lost, and now you come along and turn it into dive weights thus completing the lead lifecycle 😂😂 I'd be keen on a part 2 showing how to coat them as well!
The circle of lead life is a beautiful thing after all ahhah
you should post movre videos about your gear bro. Awesome channel ! Thanks for posting I really enjoy your vids.
Thank you! I will heaps of gear reviews to come over the next few months
Great video once again with more details and safety considerations than just chucking the lead in a pot. Been collecting old sinkers for years and also looking forward to the coating video. Have just bought the spray plastidip to try but be good to see what you do
Awesome thank you, yeah need a bit of responsibility and I’ve heard some horrendous stories after posting this about people getting chronic fatigue for years from the lead.
Good stuff
Thanks 🤙🏼
Need to make fishing sinkers from diving rubbish
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Hey man great vid, would love to see how you coat them. Where I stay we don’t have many options to do that. I am just coating it with paint for now
Spray on plastidip works pretty well
Thank you, ill let you know how i get on. Ill start filming again in about a week so stay tuned!
Have you seen molds for flat weights? I need one for my weight vest
I actually havent sorry
Where did you get the mold I was going to make some and was never able to find
Link is in the description man :) but initially i got online for the same price
I wanna see you rubberize them
Might have to do a part 2
@@WetMammal that would be awesome!
The silver surfer thing happened to me once. Not good
Ohhh shiiiiii, everything alright?
How much did they end up weighing?
1.41kg and 1.38kg
First
Nice work!
Who will be 2nd and 3rd though!