I have Hardy ice blue line that was given to me bay a kind forum member, it is a beautiful line, but it has seen better days, it is starting to get bit stiff and has cracked here and there , they no longer make the ice blue, last night whilst reading one of the catalogues i noticed that GAC sell plasticizer... anybody used it ... does it work?? is it a waste of money ... thanks

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I remember many moons ago buying the complete range of Chubb products - 'Permaflote', 'Permasink', and their plasticiser 'Permaplas'. I used it all up on all of my lines, and best I can say is, it didn't do them any harm There wasn't owt so special about it to make me buy it twice.

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Fly Clips & Stands

cheers Rob, would you say it is worth 6 quid plus postage or would you just put the extra tenner in and get a barrio/pugwash line ??

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If it's just one line yer worried about Icky, I'd put the money into a new one. If you've got 3 or 4 or more that need a face-lift, then give it a go and see what you think?

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I was told the active ingredient of prermaplas used to be di-isoOctyl Phthalate - a very good PVC plasticizer, although most fly line manyfacturers use a cocktail of others now.

DIISOOCTYL PHTHALATE (DIOP)

Any good lab should have a jar of this viscous liquid lying around. It works brilliantly.

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so guys what would be the best dressing..been told about some kind of silicone car cleaner that works well and cost fraction of the cost of snowbee dresser..

bobcat, armourall is what you are talking about, very good for giving your lines a lift, wouldn't help to replastisize though

Please correct me if wrong but i think most or a lot of line products are silicone based. Some polishes like dash shine are also silicone based it,s a type of oil. "WD40 spray oil is silicone based

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Surely armorall must have some form of plastizer in it, other wise your dashboard would be cracked up,no pint making a product which claims to do a job and then knackers your interior, i use that and rainx ,be it halfords version , also autoglym rubber &vinyl cleaner, but would they bring an old line back to life , doubt it Dont think wd40 is silacon based if you want to get a line to speed through yer lines try ptfe dry lube, abit expensive though

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I'm still using a fly line that must be over 20 years old - a peach cortland 444 floater - that I over-plasticised with Permaplas aeons ago. I'd say the stuff worked, but do use sparingly.

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