Accumulator said:
Hmmm..interesting that the FK1000P wasn't all that slick :think:
And that's the first I've heard of the FK1000P doing the pseudo-hologram thing. Anybody else had that happen?
Well, here were my steps - and all this is only on the gas cap which is what I'm testing it on:
-clay
-mothers scratch remover
-mothers phase 1 pre-wax cleaner
-isopropyl alcohol 91% wipe down
-FK2180 x2
-FK1000p x >2
I put each layer on about 20 minutes after each other. For the FK1000p I may have ended up putting on around 10 layers. The problem was it looked like it wasn't applying. I first tried a microfiber. Nothing looks like it went on, waited and nothing hazed. So I tried to wet the microfiber, still nothing. So I tried to rub a lot more from the jar, still nothing. So I went to a foam applicator, it would show like a centimeter of coverage and vanish. Then I tried a wet foam, still nothing. Finally, I tried the dry foam again and really rubbed in the tin to try to cover the foam with it. That finally worked. I counted this as my first coat. Then I waited till the next morning and did one more coat. It was easier this time. Maybe my tin had a layer of 1000p that was hardened on top so I wasn't actually getting any on the applicator until I broke through that layer. The last layer I wiped off at least 20 minutes later. I saw the holograms 3 days later when I pulled the car into the sun. I was worried they were in the paint from the scratch remover or pre-wax cleaner, or maybe from rubbing so much with the applicator when there was no wax on it. But it cleaned up from the FK425 so I'm glad.
Could the holograms be from putting two many layers of FK products on one after another and they all try to cure together?
I also had another panel I tested straight 1000p on and it did not hologram, but what I saw 1 day later after the last layer was a light powdery haze formed on it, that seemed to appear after the car sat in the sun almost like the heat drove out more chemicals and caused it to haze on top. My gas cap did not show this though, just the hologram. I wonder if it could also be caused by overapplication since I have to rub quite a bit to get the applicator going before it applies correctly, and was only using it on the space of a gas cap. Though the removal step was very easy and clean. Another possibility is contamination from the wipe-off microfiber. I was testing 6 products and use the same MF to wipe off the residue from all of them.
Now the slickness, I definitely have enough layers that coverage is not the issue. I actually have 1000p on 3 different test panels, 2 are bare 1000p x 2, and one is many layers over 2180. Now maybe my perception of slickness is skewed because UPGP might be just so much slicker than the norm. But it seems to me there is this smooth type of luxuriouis feel to the paint with 1000p on it, a bit of a smooth resistance. UPGP just feels like you are sliding off of it like there was some teflon lubricant or something sitting on the surface.
Actually, I think FK215 might feel slicker than 1000p and 2180, I have that on another test panel. Maybe I should try a 215, 2180 x2, 1000p x2 panel and see how that performs.
