Frog's Fanny Subsitute.

Cool!! May field test a gallon myself.

Mike

"George Adams" wrote in message
...
From: "Mike Makela"

Read the threads a few weeks back about several options for buying
"generic"
Frog's Fanny from several sources. Has anyone actually tried one of the
sources and is it a good alternative.

The first thing that came to mind was
that the texture. Is it the same? I would think it would need to be or
it
could create problems?

I have a gallon of Cab-o-Sil and it appears to be identical in every way
to
F.F. If it ever stops snowing up here, I'll field test it.


George Adams

"All good fishermen stay young until they die, for fishing is the only
dream of
youth that doth not grow stale with age."
---- J.W Muller

It works great. Willi has (had!) a huge bag of it.

bruce h

Man, I bet that stuff is harder to get into the bottle than it is to get
those little foam packaging peanuts back into the box. Any suggestions
before I buy a lifetime supply, or is it pretty much a non-issue?

Jim Ray
"Mike Makela" ten.tsacmoc@alekamm wrote in message
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Cool!! May field test a gallon myself.

Mike

"George Adams" wrote in message
...
From: "Mike Makela"

Read the threads a few weeks back about several options for buying
"generic"
Frog's Fanny from several sources. Has anyone actually tried one of
the
sources and is it a good alternative.

The first thing that came to mind was
that the texture. Is it the same? I would think it would need to be
or
it
could create problems?

I have a gallon of Cab-o-Sil and it appears to be identical in every way
to
F.F. If it ever stops snowing up here, I'll field test it.


George Adams

"All good fishermen stay young until they die, for fishing is the only
dream of
youth that doth not grow stale with age."
---- J.W
Muller

Jim wrote:
Man, I bet that stuff is harder to get into the bottle than it is to get
those little foam packaging peanuts back into the box. Any suggestions
before I buy a lifetime supply, or is it pretty much a non-issue?


It's alittle messy, but not hard. I have mine in a large gallon sized
ziplock. I open the bag enough to dip the bottle in, fill it, remove it
from the bag, shake it to settle the stuff and repeat until full. That's
the best way I've found. The stuff is very light and easily gets blown
around.

Willi

"Willi" wrote in message
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It's alittle messy, but not hard. I have mine in a large gallon sized
ziplock. I open the bag enough to dip the bottle in, fill it, remove it
from the bag, shake it to settle the stuff and repeat until full. That's
the best way I've found. The stuff is very light and easily gets blown
around.

Willi




So you got yours and it is basically identical to the "Frog's Fanny" ??

It looks like from this site that there are different consistencies.
http://w1.cabot-corp.com/controller....&entry=product


A few more links originally supplied by Snoop/RW on the previous thread:

http://www.eagerplastics.com/cab.htm - For the M5 type, need a minimum $25
order online which equates to at least 2 1/2 lbs of the stuff (5 gallons).
I went with the next one..

http://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalo...es/cabosil.php - $6.75 an lb with
shipping $10.60 for a lb, not sure which type, but I went ahead and went
placed an order for an lb.

Just hope the stuff doesn't leak on the way and the feds show up thinking
it's anthrax or something a little less intoxicating..

The Finn

So you got yours and it is basically identical to the "Frog's Fanny" ??

I got a big bag from a local fly shop for $15. They told me it was
"toner." It is "Frog's Fanny". Skinner looked at it and said it was
cabosil. He used to use the stuff when he was building custom planes. I
thought it would last me a lifetime, but I've given alot of it away and
I will have to restock sometime. I think I only got several ounces. A
pound of the stuff must be an enormous quantity. The stuff is VERY light.

Willi

Willi wrote in
:






So you got yours and it is basically identical to the "Frog's Fanny"
??

I got a big bag from a local fly shop for $15. They told me it was
"toner." It is "Frog's Fanny". Skinner looked at it and said it was
cabosil. He used to use the stuff when he was building custom
planes. I thought it would last me a lifetime, but I've given
alot of it away and I will have to restock sometime. I think I
only got several ounces. A pound of the stuff must be an enormous
quantity. The stuff is VERY light.

Willi



I managed to track it down here in Aus. as well. Found it as a "filler"
(this particular item is called Aerosil 200) used in resins at a model
(clay, latex etc) supplier. Apart from filler and colouring agents
there's a foot odor powder that uses it as a component, there was also
some "snake oil" tonic that ...anyway... I did consider using the foot
powder for a few seconds ... something about a combination floatant wader
deodoriser appealed. ;-)

125 grams (I estimate enough to fill a lot (30+) of Frogs Fanny bottles)
cost $10. It looks to be about 1.5 to 2 litres of a very fine light
white powder that has a sort of soapy feel to it.

So what now, a stiffish brush applicator and scrub it into the fly??

(The original Frog's Fanny must be good they're tying flies to imitate
it .... http://www.geocities.com/zachpittman...FlashMidge.htm :-)

Steve

Stephen Welsh wrote:




I managed to track it down here in Aus. as well. Found it as a "filler"
(this particular item is called Aerosil 200) used in resins at a model
(clay, latex etc) supplier. Apart from filler and colouring agents
there's a foot odor powder that uses it as a component, there was also
some "snake oil" tonic that ...anyway... I did consider using the foot
powder for a few seconds ... something about a combination floatant wader
deodoriser appealed. ;-)

125 grams (I estimate enough to fill a lot (30+) of Frogs Fanny bottles)
cost $10. It looks to be about 1.5 to 2 litres of a very fine light
white powder that has a sort of soapy feel to it.

So what now, a stiffish brush applicator and scrub it into the fly??


Or an old Frog's Fanny bottle.

Willi