In reply to Post #29
£25.79 for the gun (without battery) but it takes DeWalt batteries...
£26.49 delivery charge :(

In reply to Post #31
Yeah I just spotted the delivery charge 😭

I have the DeWalt batteries so thought it would be perfect.

In reply to Post #28
I did the same with my old solar 4 way nozzle.
Four sausages stuck together but three rolled apart and fell side by side with no grief.

In reply to Post #32
Personally I wouldn't trust a plastic barrel but it's your choice
Hopefully it's better quality than some, the plastic can 'give' and the mix gets behind the plunger.

In reply to Post #34
Same.... it might be fine in the summer with a softer mix.

When you are working in the garage in the winter, its a stiffer mix, its cold and you are trying to do some 8mm baits - there's a decent amount of pressure in that barrel. Those eletric guns are meant to put out some decent force and you can hear them struggling in the above situation. Metal barrel all the way.

Spend a bit more on the UK ebay ones - in the long term you'll be thankful (at its still 3-4 times cheaper than a dewalt/makita).

Agreed - buy cheap, buy twice.

Thanks for everybody's replies 😁👍

In reply to Post #30
Should be quicker with multi nozzle as less pressure required

In reply to Post #33
With my mix if I make it wet then let it sit for 30-45 mins the sausages aren't sticky, so I'll try it with 4 nozzles then if I do have an issue I'll blank one off.
The nozzles aren't so easy get nowadays, shame 5mix stopped trading

In reply to Post #38
My mix is firm and not sticky, but as the paste is extruded is seems to bind to the ones alongside as the 4 way means some are on top of the others.
The 3 way allows them to fall alongside each other.
Try it and you may find the same.
Wrt blanking one off, I used the screw in cap provided by solar, but I also used a two part epoxy (milliput) on the inside to fill the cap and also make a shaped side to help channel the paste and ease the flow.
I don't still have it so can't add pictures.

In reply to Post #33
Can you still get the triple or 4-way nozzles?

Can't seem to find them online.

In reply to Post #40
No, I don't think so. Solar stopped making them yonks ago and on a previous thread someone said 5Mix had stopped selling them too. 2 people on here at the time asked about mine but I thought if I sell it I might well regret it.

In reply to Post #39
Yeah I'll try it
I have certainly gotten away with 4 sausages in the past, I've had the Solar multi nozzle for over 30 years I believe. I bought it when they first became available.
Which I think was early 90's

In reply to Post #21
Quote.... I can remember years ago Tony from Premier telling me one of the lads dropped a litre glass bottle of injun oil, which obviously smashed, took a very long while for the smell to subside 😂😂



I am so nose dead to it all now. The sense of taste never changes though, and that's what matters.

I give my postman a nice tip every Christmas, so we have become friendly. I wear a snugpak jacket while at work. It soaks it up the vapors from the hook bait heaters like a sponge. When I explained to the postman one day that i was not some stinking tramp really, it's to do with my work.... He replied pissing himself that he would never have mentioned it, but the smell from me (the jacket) is so overpowering its sickening. We laughed so much.

Every delivery driver who comes to us must think that I'm an absolute stinking freak

I'm looking at designing my own electric powered extruder. Does anybody know a rough weight of base mix per litre once it is made up ready to gun?

I am getting back in to bait making in a few months so do not have any ingredients to mix up yet, I will be doing it on a larger scale to supply a few friends.

The tube I am looking at using has a volume of almost 4 litres.

My 24 eggs mix takes 3 kg of base mix. Weight with eggs is 4.2 kilo.

It takes 6 full runs in the dewalt gun.

From memory the gun capacity is 600ml but check the specs online.