Demonstrating Dynamic and Static Phylic Surfaces

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This video begins by showing how incredibly phobic a glass surface can be.  This is a brand new mirror.  Notice how pure water beads up and runs off.  Not very good for WFP work at all!  The video continues to expose a new blend of soaps both carbon and silicon based.  All three are anionic so they won't leave much of a film.  But have a well balanced effect on water so just the right surface tension is accomplished for Trad work on phobic glass.  I next wanted to see if Universal Photonics SR Pad was adequate to convert a very phobic surface to a phylic surface.  But not!  If I gave it enough time I am sure it would have worked.  But you can see I was able to accomplish this much better with a lose compound by hand alone.  No machine.  Pure water just sheets over this newly converted phylic surface.  It is so phylic that not even a single water drop forms.  Totally perfect for WFP work!  But hold on.  This is just a dynamic phylic surface!  I can hear you say oh no, now what?  Well my friends there are actually two different phylic surfaces.  Dynamic is the kind that will sheet water that actively strikes it.  Such as from a WFP brush, window wetting wand, a heavy rain, etc.  You get it.  But condensate from a mist or steam from a hot shower is quite another matter.  For this we need a glass surface that has been chemically enhanced.  This can be performed in a number of different ways.  Here I have chosen a water based anti-fog product which you can buy.  It does not bond to the glass and so will wear off in a relatively short time.  But would be great if you wanted to private label it and sell to your customers.  Anyhow I applied it to the bottom half of my mirror.  Remember I totally converted the entire mirror surface to a dynamic phylic surface.  Which sheeted dynamic water very well.  But still allows microscopic beads of pure water to form as a fog.  Yet by applying the anti-fog I was able to change the bottom half of the mirror to a static phylic surface.  The upper part remained a dynamic phylic.  So in the video you can see clearly through the bottom half.  This will sheet even condensate from a hot shower!  The top half of the dynamic phylic surface on the other hand developed a thick fog.  The trick comes at the very end of the video when I pass a wetting wand up and down the entire plate showing how the entire surface can be sheeted with pure water.  This demonstrates the power of hydrophylic chemical treatments for glass.  They can be quite effective.  Products that do this are easy to get.  I do believe the one I demonstrated here is one of the best out there.  And you can buy it in large quantities if you want to put it in smaller bottles and repackage for advertising your business.  But it will still wear off in time because it is not a bonded reactive anti-fog product.  We need a polymer that forms a covalent bond with glass.  One that will convert dynamic phylic to static phylic and last.  I will keep you posted on this.  Cuz I am working on precisely this right now.  This is yet one more video in my series demonstrating the conversion technology of phobic to phylic.

Written by Henry Grover Jr.
henrygroverjr@gmail.com

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