Diamonds can dramatically enhance the image of a Window Cleaning Company. They can also enhance our service and increase our annual profits. By making it possible to clean glass more effectively in less time. Restoring glass by removing scratches, abrasions, hard water spots, and acid damage. Further;...glass can now be coated and thus protected with thin films of diamond. This is common practice in the optics industry.
Everyone knows what a jewelers diamond is. To the right of this page you will see a micrograph of polycrystalline diamond particles used as superabrasives. Also a micrograph of a weathered or etched window glass surface. We have no use for jewelers diamonds. Yet polycrystalline diamond particles or superabrasives are quite useful. Since they can be used to effectively clean and restore glass surfaces. The picture to the far right shows quite vividly how porous ordinary glass surfaces can become over time. Oily fingerprints, pizza grease, or just dust will fill these holes, valleys, and tunnels. Making it impossible to effectively clean the glass using typical cleaners. But when we add a microcrystalline superabrasive to our cleaning solution we get much better results. Those ball like polycrystalline diamond particles with hundreds of sharp edges each, will reach down into the surface and dig out all acidic contaminants. But please don't be taken in by the sales hype of some manufacturers who have products based on diamond. I remember twenty years ago a level teaspoon of pure microcrystalline diamond powder cost fifty bux. How much of that could someone put into a product? Especially when the manufacturing cost of that product must be multiplied by a factor of 4 to 6 for an end retail price? Another consideration is nano-diamonds. I have an entire gallon of a nano-diamond colloidal suspension. Good for taking off fingerprints but that's it. So too small is not good. Also too big will scratch or abrade. Just right is what we need.
Polycrystalline diamond particles are also quite effective at lapping flat glass with the right tools. Creating what are called precision surfaces. Such particles are very effective owing to their size, shape, purity, and hardness. Some are even friable. Which means they actually break up into smaller particles when used. These smaller particles give the surface a smoother feel and appearance. So diamond can be used to restore window glass. I just did a great restoration on my pellet stove borosilicate glass door. Using my Micro Wobble Wheel and a 3 micron diamond compound. I would not suggest using this particular system on window glass however as it does leave a very slight abrasion haze that would be rather unsightly in the direct sun. A second step using a wet cerium slurry would be necessary. But it does demonstrate what kind of potential there is. Which needs to be explored by my G-SMART Community.
I am just beginning to bring the technology of superabrasive engineering of precision glass surfaces to the window cleaning industry. This is a field that has existed for a long time in the optics industry. It is highly scientific. If it were not we wouldn’t be able to look out into the unbelievable depths of space at the stars, galaxies, and quasars. Or down to the farthest reaches of the microcosm where living cells thrive, divide, and work together to create our bodies. Quality glass surfaces are critical to the proper functioning of lenses and mirrors. They are also to our work. My hope is that many will follow me. This is why I am creating the G-SMART Community.
Written by Henry Grover Jr.
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