Need help fixing swimbaits

[HandGunner]

i have both big and small versions of the Castaic hard head swimbaits in sunfish and threadfin shad

had them for a good 8 years, rarely fish these but plan to now since i bass fish now were as b4 my father just had the swimbaits and i was just a wee lad. anyhoo they all seem to be weak in the glueing now so i took off the softbody part to be reglued. i noticed however the head part is starting to flake paint. well i planed to use some 5-10 minute epoxy to reglue the soft body back to the hard head part and i was thinking what if i put a coat of epoxy on the hard head part of the lure, would that solve the problem? would it work or wuld it not? if it would work would i use 5-10 minute epoxy or a epoxy that takes longer to set? and can it be possible the epoxy coating can affect the lure action? and is epoxy a good choice for glueing the softplastic body to the hard head? regular super glue sets wayyy fast of the softplastic so it dosnt work as well.

[river rat316]

Handgunner,

You probably are not gong to want to use 5 minute epoxy as a over coat, it wont have enough time to smooth out as it cures to fast, go with devcon 2t it is a 30 minute epoxy and dries nice and hard, if you are worrying about getting to much epoxy on and ruining the action devcon 2t can be thinned with M.E.K its a nasty thinner and can be found at Home depot or Menards. For glueing the bodies I would personally use a super glue, but epoxy would aork fine also, just don't use to much of either or it will stiffen the plastic up!

[mainbutter]

I've also thinned devcon 2 ton with pure acetone, and I THINK denatured alcohol (can't remember for sure if I tried that one or just read about it, cuz that would've been well over a year ago), and whichever I used worked pretty well.