test here,
shower, toilet, shoes, gloves, bucket
the bucket worked great to repel water, and elmers glue, then i decided chocolate would be a neat test, nope, it ruined the coating, do not use oil based products because they break down the surface. here i discovered that the coating comes off very easily. this was my first test.
i did one wall of my shower, it repelled water a little bit but was generally ineffective, ill chalk this one up to user error, i dont think i applied it heavily enough, i began to hate the fact that it came in the form of a spray paint because it is hard to use.
at the same time i did the inside of the toilet bowl, it was quite effective here at repelling water, any waste stuck to the side of the bowl flushed off easily. this coating has begun peeling, after a couple of weeks though.
one lesson to be learned, if you do this in your bathroom, your entire bathroom will get coated with it, even if you run the exhaust fan, i spent half an hour scrubbing every surface getting a the thin useless coating off, it was too thin to be repellent.
as for gloves, the coating worked at first, then i wore the glove(cotton) to actually do a little work to test it, the coating became mostly ineffective after about five minutes of moderate movement. it still repelled water but some water would also soak into the glove. the water seeped in at any part of the glove where my fingers moved and flexed the glove, the palm side became mostly permeable. the backside of the glove was fairly resistant still.
the shoes have not been tested in the rain but i suspect that it will suffer the same fate as the gloves, becoming permeable where there is flexing.
for anyone who has not tested the product yet, it is definitely cool to see and use, but there are major limitations.
first, the product is pretty delicate, running your hand over it or flexing the item treated will severely degrade the coating.
secondly, it is thick, making anything you spray it on stiffer.
finally it does not repel anything oily, in fact, anything oily will destroy the coating.
i give this product a 3/10 in its current form, when it is made more durable and in an easier to apply format, such as paintbrush paint, it may be more useful.
the coolness factor is a solid 7, buy it now and become a pioneer in hydrophobicity, but dont expect to use it on anything practical though.
![[laugh]](/xen/styles/default/xenforo/smilies.vb/012.gif "Laugh [laugh]")
) as he was the only rapper I could understand the lyrics to. Other than that, maybe a couple songs over the years from the likes of Jay-Z and others.
