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Hi,
I’m not familiar with this Rustoleum product but Stepfather who was into plastic model cars and ships. He also strung sailing ships and hand painted other craft stuff before he died and so he knew tricks.
He said, he used some acrylic floor wax on the clear plastics of various models. Those that had small windows would completely cloud.
He said that the fumes evaporated from the glues and would haze the surfaces.
His answer was by applying the floor finish over the surface and it would then turn clear again.
I suspect it filled into the matt finish left from the attack.
I related this attack to be similar to the sun rays on any plastic.
So with that process, I would have to guess, that maybe, it is an acrylic or a resin based substance in Rustoleum. Probably clear acrylic spray paint resin for $5-6 a 12 oz. can!
It is using that with a strong kicker, with a name you can’t pronounce and don’t want to even know the side affects of, to make it bond to a plastic lens.
In the tube video, it showed a “plain white” bottle of “ Wipe New.” Curiously, I Didn’t see the Rustoleum brand name. Ever wonder where the formula came from? I smell a buyout, if the original company, created no liabilities on their own first!
Crest personal care division does this all the time!
All of which all of this reminds me of a Black dye, that was a real thin creamy like product I ran across being sold by some Portland Oregon college students for $10 a bottle many years ago!
It appeared to really dye the plastic interior parts as it appeared to “soak in!”
Very resilient stuff and kept black plastic black! Definitely renewed it.
A year or two later, I went to reorder and the phone number had disappeared. So sad I was!
Any who, Guess what their name of their product was? Back to Black! Bet you have seen that name.
I have seen several products with that same name since then but the liquid inside is white or thin and watery.
I guess they didn’t register that name or patent their concoction and a corporation smack them down or they never pursued higher goals!
Like the “Wipe New” it came with gloves, a piece of sponge and many precautions. It’s canty for This to be so similar in presentation.
My guess is this product must liquify the surface molecules because the author on the video said it appeared to etch from the stench that the camera girl was side stepping!
Possibly, it melts the plastic just enough to shed the oxidized dust back into the surface or gets absorbed up into the rags solution. Probably melts a foam sponge if the chemical are that hot!
I noticed most kits off pads or cloths with minimum amount of product.
Competition for profits in kit form. $2 for $10 divided through several retail channels becomes an industry and somehow that saves energy and carbon footprint? Give me a break!
Bottom line is the lenses are plastic. Shame not to be at least Lexan that GE made that is better but not an answer. Substitution of polymer coatings is not working long term.
Glass is, of course the answer time proven. The old or round headlights were and still are $15 and can be made to receive rear replacement elements the whole time without water leaks from cracks or separation anxieties!.
The headlights manufacturers try to work around doing that and it’s more exciting for them to create style and not so much for the aerodynamics purpose either! Don’t even don’t want to bring up Dealer proprietary profits!
Any fuel savings you will get from weight or aerodynamics is shot up in restoration or protection products, every year!
The DOT got hornswoggled into this consumer scam against out driving safety!
People are not going to take care of their cars and are driving everyday, blindly, because of this!
I use plastic polishes or Duco polishes compounds to remove wind blown scum off.
Try to park the car away from the sunshine direction in parking lots.
A stick of Duco rouge or a bottle of polish does several cars for years. We are stuck with this garbage might as well get good at it!
We should demand better quality from these throwaway cars, as we have the technology, for safety concerns!
One You Tube videoclip mentioned that an owner can be held liable for not maintaining their own headlights!
I sure hope that is false, but if true, that in itself could get the DOT to reverse the standards or you drive into the dealers and get replacements forever!
That still pinches wallets in reality, but the units price would fall!
Phil
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