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Modellbahn-Lokomotiven aufgetragen
werden kann, um die Zugkraft zu erhöhen.
Im flüssigen Zustand ist Bullfrog Snot ...
I'm sure someones tounge was firmly in his or her cheeck when this product was named. Our hobby has never been short of people with a sense of humor! ...
Bullfrog Snot is by far one of the more interesting new items released for the model train industry this year.
Locomotive traction has always been a concern, and Bullfrog Snot offers a solution.
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- "This is the biggest breakthrough in model railroading thats ever came along."
- " ...an AMAZING 111% improvement!"
- "... I can triple the pulling power"
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- "I have already doubled what the unSnotted engine could pull. I am happy."
- "I'm thinking a 50% to 100% increase in pulling power."
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Were we missing?
BULLFROG SNOT has been abandonded by our web site management outfit. They have vanished. There is no maintenence, and the site will 'go dark' on occasion. We are busy constructing a new website, slightly different look, same features. When it is ready, we'll cut over.
BULLFROG SNOT remains available, at your favorite local hobby shop, from on-line dealers, in the USA, UK, Europe, Australia, etc. This stuff works!
We did the Great Train Show at the Anaheim Congestion Center last weekend. Of course, there we many visitors that had never heard of BULLFROG SNOT, and most liked the layout and installation videos.
And there were dealers there also selling BULLFROG SNOT. And quite a few folks came in and said they were very happy users, and that the "stuff really works!" (We all know that). Makes you feel kinda warm 'n fuzzy. Also sent some to an MMA in New Zealand, and the the Kiwi reported great results on his 2-6-6-2 and Allegheny.
Customer inquiry: We have a customer who purchased your product from us and was extremely satisfied with it : however he didn't use it for a while and the product seems to have thickened. What can be done about this?? Thanks.......
Our reply: The general chemical spec for the shelf-life of BULLFROG SNOT is five years.
Most likely is was allowed to freeze (possible in your area?). When that happens the polymers will set and you have a lump of slimey silly putty in the jar. It’s over, no recovery.
Another issue is that folks will seal the lid shut. Get out the channel-locks and good luck.
We’ll rule out Kryptonite exposure, it’s rare.
If it was left ‘open’, the normal curing process of out-gassing will occur. Thinning with plain ‘ol water generally works – some like to thin it prior to use. Place a few drops of BULLFROG SNOT on something like a business card, add a drop of water, mix like you would for epoxy.
Our installation video shows what a MP 4-4-0 can do if it gets grip. This loco, in it’s natural state, is a notorious ‘weak sister’. An article appeared in N-Scale magazine a while back documenting the surgery required to add a rubber-band type traction tire to this little jewel. Problem remains, where do you get the driver? Same issue continues for the Kato N Mikado, folks are blowing big bucks on eBay and begging Kato for more. Why? Oh, why?
A letter appeared in N-Scale mag seeking procurement assistance – where do these parts exist, if at all - to follow the article’s instructions, and now a reply is published: “Use BULLFROG SNOT!!!” See the videos, he sez. And he is correct, this fellow has no affiliation with the BULLFROG, he’s just an ecstatic enthusiastic user.
So, when pompous perpetual pontificators purport negative results – pulling fewer cars - with the MP 4-4-0 testing BULLFROG SNOT, or that blackened wheels (?) somehow outperform BULLFROG SNOT, or continually contend that BULLFROG SNOT “will never be as good as a factory tire” (without ever trying it, mind you!) we must challenge their self-appointed ‘expert’ status. We say they’re talking out their stack.
Try it for yourself. We created it to serve the traction impaired, it works better than obsolete rubber-bands of any flavor, its very cost effective, won’t come off, requires no surgery or specialized rare components.
Since BULLFROG SNOT was released to the public, there have been detractors. A fair amount of these characters, when asked how it worked for them, will reply “Oh, I don’t have a layout”, so they just offer uninformed babble. Others are self-appointed experts on almost any topic, their chatter is ubiquitous and voluminous, such that you’d think they were being paid by the word. There have been accusations from that chattering cabal that the BULLFROG SNOT installation video is (gasp!) deceptive.
So, we have added a few disclaimers. The video shows how to install BULLFROG SNOT, and a before-and-after example of the actual performance improvement. It does not express or imply any specific results on any particular type or brand of locomotive.
“This was a modified locomotive” they cry. Well, duh! Look at the video, do you see any unmodified locomotives there? (no virgins on my layout). No secret either, as the details were covered in our blog way back in Jan of '09. Modestly, we’re darn good at this, and we have released our secret to the world, I guess some folks just can't be pleased.
BULLFROG SNOT is non-conductive. It's made that way for numerous good reasons. Some folks have been experimenting to alter it's natural state so it will flow juice. Recently we've heard that powdered graphite (the lock lubricant stuff) has promising results. We tried to duplicate their success. Powdered graphite is messy if poorly handled, it made for thicker SNOT (thus altering wheel diameters beyond an acceptable range), it made for a less 'grippy' material (it's intended as a lubricant after all), and we could not measure the desirable conductivity with an ohmmeter. Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?
We worked with many potential conductive materials during the brewing of BULLFROG SNOT, and eliminated them all as lacking practicality, ease of use, and performance. This new correspondence says that they added the graphite to the SNOT after it was applied to the wheels, before the SNOT cured. Now we have not tried this (we're lacking an available patient), so if this works for you we'd like to know more.
The NMRA Pacific Southwest Region! In sunny San Diego. We'll be there giving a clinic session Friday afternoon at 2:30. Come on out, and we'll answer all your questions. And we'll be there on Saturday so you can buy some BULLFROG SNOT. You know in your heart it's right !
BULLFROG SNOT Installation Video Seen this yet? Way cool !
Found this in a recent on-line chat post " Bullfrog Snot is not intended to replace traction tires. It is intended to be painted on wheels which do not have a traction tire groove." So says this self-appointed expert. What BULLFROG SNOT is intended for, my mis-informed friend, is solving traction issues. It can certainly be used where a traction tire never was, which is obvious. And it can be used over malperforming factory rubber band tires, and it can replace a missing tire. As a manufacturer, we refrain from responding in chat threads. Most of the time, anyhow. Seems a lot of these comments come from folks that have never used or tried BULLFROG SNOT, often they don't have an operating layout, just an opinion. Freedom of speech, it's wonderful (thank a Veteran) !
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