Floatant

[osprey]

I'm not sure if this should be in here or another catagory but anyhow , did any of you ever try anything in the way of making your own floatant material , try taking the silicon gel packs out of shipped electronic parts , do a little crushing and mixing with various desicants , even kitty litter and you can come up with a pretty close to store bought mix , it works , try mixing up a large batch , one third of a one pound coffee can , for drying bass bugs like deer hair poppers and such , before you put the lid back on let it sit in direct sunlight a minute or two and what is left in the way of moisture will evaporate , always false cast as much moisture out of the fly before you drop it in the can and always false cast a few times to get rid of any excess powder , if you do this right there isn't much excess powder. 1/8 part silicone gel powder to 7 parts oil dri or plain clay kitty litter is a fair place to start The last time i bought drying powder it was from LOON products at a Gander Mountain it was $7.00 and that was a few years ago , i was impressed with how this stuff works and also impressive was the cost , at that time i was raising 2 little ones and money was tight.

 

[dryflyguy]

Where I work, we got a piece of electronic equipment delivered . The shipping box had 2 rather large pouches of desicant balls inside. They look just like the ones that you see in the small containers at fly shops.
I grabbed them, and have been using them for a good while now.
And they work fine
Got a lifetime supply - for free

 

[jrcll]

i`ve been wanting to try that,we get a lot of those desicant packs with parts being shipped in at work, i gotta try it now

 

[jason8709]

by dessicant packs do you guys mean the 'do not eat' packets? The ones I see frequently are in giant industrail sized pepperoni bags (for pizza). think this would work?

 

[dryflyguy]

Yes, that's it. The ones that seem to work the best for me are the little balls. I've also seen powdery looking desicants