Real or Fake???

[Cuba Libre]

Worth watching

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L55t1jhcrtQ

 

[Dogbreath]

Very interesting the real stuff melts but doesn't ignite-it's good of this guy to expose fraudsters.

 

[Big Green Machine]

He should have kept the flame from the lighter up to the end of the 'real' fluorocarbon a little longer.

 

[Fish Assassin]

He should have kept the flame from the lighter up to the end of the 'real' fluorocarbon a little longer.

Yup...... I think it's an ad for his own sales

 

[Ripcurl]

I just tried this test with 40lb seagur blue, 8 lb Pline CFX and 4lb Berkeley vanish.

Not one of them would stay burning afterwards. I was using a butane torch not a Bic lighter.

I'm convinced this test works.

 

[Big Green Machine]

I just tried this test with 40lb seagur blue, 8 lb Pline CFX and 4lb Berkeley vanish.

Not one of them would stay burning afterwards. I was using a butane torch not a Bic lighter.

I'm convinced this test works.

Using the Scientific Method to rule out test bias, did you do the same to the fake Flouro?

 

[fshnfnatic]

Very interesting.Just tried the lighter test on some maxima 100% flurocarbon and it won't ignite either. Regular mono is
a whole different story. Burns like a hot damn!I guess I'll be staying away from any super cheap Fluro on line from now on.

 

[Ripcurl]

Using the Scientific Method to rule out test bias, did you do the same to the fake Flouro?

I don't have any fake that I know of but using the test on 3 separate brands is enough for me to be very suspect if I come across some flouro that burns. Kind of like rubbing silver against a white cloth as an initial test.

Of course other tests should include breaking force, knot retention and optical qualities. Possibly fake Flouro would be obvious in a fish tank compared to real Flouro re optical qualities.