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Recycling Flies

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#1 ·
Recycling flies seems like a simple thing, and saving dumbell eyes would also... EXCEPT if you use epoxy... I found a small electric drill at Christmass tree shops for $12.00. with a number of bits. etc. It is a rechargeble mini drill and works well for breaking apart the epoxy with no damage to the eyes as well if you are carefull...Just FYI.
 
#2 ·
recycling epoxy flies

Epoxy will soften back to a liquid at somewhere around 200 225 degrees. Just put the flies in a throw away aluminum baking pan and put them in the oven for a while. You should be able to pick the hooks out of the pool of epoxy with tweezers (not your good ones). Just another way of doing it.
 
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