Anyone got a good way to make frag plugs?

I think I would just buy them commercial made...but here's a link I found. http://www.talkingreef.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-2672.html

 

You can make a few molds out of sand or concrete. Use a pencil and a bottle cap to make the mold and then fill it in with whatever you can make plugs out of.

 

I'm moving this topic to the general forum.

 

snail shells work well!

 

Ive got everything needed to make them at my finger tips, my moms a huge pottery person. She was curious what type of clay they are useing. It would be easy to make em and fire em.

 

I think you'd want to use white clay over red clay, as red clay is supposed to have more lead in it and they use white for tableware.

 

A bag of frag plugs is only $5.49 from Oceans Wonders...   That's about $.22 cents a plug.   Unless you don't value your time at all, I don't think you could make them for any cheaper then that and those are nice quality plugs.
-JB

 

I agree with JB...I can think of a lot better ways to spend my time.  If you're going large scale Bill, you may want to try to contact them directly to see what kind of a deal they would give you on 1,000 plugs (or whatever volume you're interested in) to cut the price down a little more.  Heck, maybe see if others from the group need some and maybe you can get an even better discount by incorporating it into a group buy.
From the Ocean Wonders site:
Do you offer discount pricing for high volume orders?

A.
Yes!  Orders of 25 bags or more of our frag mounts may receive at least
a 20% discount.  We also offer wholesale pricing to distributors, pet
stores and reef clubs, contact us for details.
A 20% discount brings the price to .175 each.
--AJ

 

from what I remember clay can be freakin expensive and hard to find a good source local. I was wanting to make some bases to hold plugs cause those are handy.

 

Posted By jbrunken on 03/02/2009 08:14 AM
A bag of frag plugs is only $5.49 from Oceans Wonders...   That's about $.22 cents a plug.   Unless you don't value your time at all, I don't think you could make them for any cheaper then that and those are nice quality plugs.
-JB
My thoughts as well....  just bought some Ocean Wonders my self thinking they were very cheap.  To me takes too much time to make my own and you have to think if you are going to fire clay in Kiln depending on the size/type it might take just as much electricity!?!?

 

I think youd almost have to cast a flexible rubber mold to be able to efficently get the plugs out without messing the mold up every time.