John,
You have good points, and I did find your information useful. I have valued
your information on the site in the past, and I will still value it in the
future. There is nothing wrong with taking the conservative approach of
testing first, and it is good common sense. I was only pointing out the
fact that you may have failed to rule in all of the positive reports that
are all over the place for this product being used on plexi, if you were
only to go looking for them. What am I supposed to believe, a lot of peoples
actual experience, or a few speculative proposals from a few people that
have never used the stuff in this application? It is just simple deduction.
That said, you may be right with the fact that the recipe could vary over
time. I had not thought of that.
Greg Fuchs A050
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Subject: Europa-List: Re: Windshield care
In a message dated 5/1/2009 3:02:31 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
europa-list@matronics.com writes:
Forgive me for saying this, but "certain polishes like Pledge" doesn't
negatively support pledge, in my book. I will personally not hesitate to....
Hello Greg
Quite frankly, I could not care less what you use on your plexiglass. It is
really none of my concern. I urged caution when using wood furniture polish
on plexiglass. I suggested testing any product intended for use only on
wooden furniture on a scrap piece of plexi before using it on an installed
plexiglass windshield. This is only common sense. Nowhere in my post will
you find any wording saying to use it or not to use it, nor will you find
anything "negatively supporting Pledge", whatever that means. If Pledge
works for you, great! Please, by all means, continue it's use to your
heart's content.
However, everyone should be aware that wood furniture polish products, like
Pledge, contain other ingredients besides the wax in the product that you
are after to protect your plexiglass. These other ingredients may or may not
react with your plexiglass. The fouling ingredient could be a binder, a
propellant, a solvent, anything besides the wax in the furniture polish you
are after. Why risk exposing your glass to these other ingredients when it's
the wax you are after?
It should also be noted that companies who make such commercial products for
wooden furniture are subject to change formulations with the ebb and flow of
suppliers. Different batches of the same product may or may not include
exactly the same ingredients. I doubt the manufacturers of these products
are taking into consideration that folks like you are using their product on
anything but wooden furniture for anything but polishing wooden furniture. I
also think you would be hard pressed to find anyone manufacturing plexiglass
who recommends the use of wood furniture polish of any kind on any
plexiglass product. If you like using Pledge on your glass, though, please
be my guest. It is, after all, your windshield and it is you who will spend
the hours replacing it should it become frosted.
The purpose of my posting was to offer the group insight into how a
professional sailplane repair shop performs routine maintenance on sailplane
canopies. As such, I hope that someone in our group found this information
useful, even if you did not.
Regards,
John Lawton
Whitwell, TN (TN89)
N245E - Flying
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