GLASS SMART WINDOW CLEANING & PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
Monday, May 20, 2013

Creating Alkaline Water Via Resin Exchange Chemistry

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Once you have reduced the TDS down to 0, and you now have totally pure water;...where do you go from there?  Why not use a resin exchange me...
Thursday, May 16, 2013

Removing Mineral Deposits With Diamond

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Diamond is the hardest substance on earth.  Well almost.  The water molecule might be even harder.  But for practical purposes it's hard...
Thursday, May 9, 2013

Cleaning Glass with Sodium Hydroxide

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Has anyone ever worked with oven cleaner to remove staining from aluminum screens?  It works really well!  Sodium hydroxide has a voracious...
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Saturday, April 27, 2013

#2 Etch Test for Glass

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This is a test for what I call Total Glass Dissolution.  Which is very simply put, the ability of the liquid in question to eat up and disso...
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Monday, April 15, 2013

#1 Etch Test for Glass

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So you have bought a liquid wonder product for removing hard water deposits.  You have watched the manufacturers video on how to use it.  Yo...
Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Creating Superhydrophobic Glass

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OK.  Many years have passed since Repcon.  Most of you out there have never even heard of this product.  It was first created for jet aircr...
Thursday, November 1, 2012

Microlapping Window Glass

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This is a relatively simple process using either a cerium oxide slurry or some other optical grade polishing powder with water.  It is possi...
Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Developing The Silicone Slayer

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Silicone Caulk can be a Window Cleaners nightmare!  The reason for this is that as silicone caulk cures it forms a covalent bond with itself...
Sunday, November 6, 2011

Defective Argon IG Units

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Back about fifteen to twenty years ago manufacturers started using the inert gas argon to fill insulting glass units.  IG units have a parti...
Tuesday, July 27, 2010

New Glass

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Even brand new glass can have a defective surface.  It can be embedded with microfines from the tempering oven.  Or be just plain rough.  Bo...
Friday, July 31, 2009

Peekaboo Mirrors

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First you see it then you don't. It is now possible to create invisible artwork and lettering on mirrors that only shows up when the mir...
Saturday, November 15, 2008

What is G-S.M.A.R.T.?

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G-S.M.A.R.T. stands for Glass Surface Maintenance And Restoration Technology. The focus is really on window surfaces, and it involves much m...
Friday, August 15, 2008

Total Glass Care

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By "Total Glass Care" I mean going way beyond just window cleaning. Glass surface restoration involves removing scratches, and min...
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Saturday, July 26, 2008

Glass Etchants

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Glass etchants such as hydrofluoric acid, sulfuric acid, and ammoniumbifluoride;...should NEVER be used in glass restoration work! Many peo...
Saturday, July 19, 2008

Power Washing

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Power washing can create stains on glass caused by hard water, cleaning chemicals based on alkalies or acids, or even bleach reacting with p...
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