The Glade 4.0

Obviously, it's sufficiently advanced technology.

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Huh...wonder how long it last and if you can use it on glass.

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Raell Kromwell

I'm too frightened to check out the MSDS...

^--- ditto.

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Surprisingly, it's not that scary.

The topcoat is basically just acetone with a little silica (i.e. sand) mixed in. Acetone has pretty low toxicity, but due to the silica you definitely want to wear a respirator while you're spraying this stuff around.

The bottom coat is where all the interesting stuff is: Xylene, Naphtha, Hexane, Methylethylketone (Butanone), Toluene, and a proprietary polymer

The composition is similar to gasoline if you removed the benzene and long chain hydrocarbons (heptane, octane, etc.). As for the proprietary polymer, you're probably already familiar with another highly hydrophobic and lipophobic (and previously proprietary) polymer: PTFE (a.k.a Teflon). It's not exactly PTFE or it would have to be listed as such on the MSDS, but all signs point to it being something substantially similar. Another strong hint to this effect comes from their FAQ:





Whatever it is, it's probably completely nontoxic at normal temperatures for the same reason that Teflon is. Being highly hydrophobic and lipophobic, your body chemistry simply has no way to interact with it. This is one of the reasons for using Teflon-coated implants in medicine.

TLDR;

More or less they've come up with a do-it-yourself way to apply a Teflon-like polymer coating to most normal materials using pretty typical solvents. You don't want to breath this stuff while applying it due to said solvents and the silica in the topcoat. Drinking the top or bottom coat would be like drinking acetone and gasoline respectively. Don't do that. The "magic ingredient" itself is probably extremely inert in the human body.

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

So if you coated your body with this stuff and jumped in a lake...what happens?

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."

I was pondering a version of this question, but specific to 'what if I drank it?'... trying to comprehend what that would mean in terms of the next glass of water I drank :p

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Holy shitsnacks!

You sink and suffocate (or drown if you didn't coat your lungs).

If you were particle man then the lake would "get you instead".

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I'd like to coat my windshield in that stuff..

Heck, the entire car!

And my eye glasses!

That is what I wanted to know. If it is transparent for use on glass.

Edit: Ok, it isn't for use on glass.

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Raell Kromwell

Doesn't the video show it being used on glass? The green square thing?

I think that's more a ceramic tile. /shrug

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Holy shitsnacks!

I'd love to spray this on my uniforms so they don't get totally covered in mud, but then how would I wash them?

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Oooh... I want it on my tent!

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When he's underwater does he get wet? Or does the water get him instead?

Or not. I just read the tox stuff that was posted above.

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When he's underwater does he get wet? Or does the water get him instead?

I think once it sets you are ok.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

Dry clean only?

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

That'd get expensive.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Since it becomes water tight that fabric would no longer be breathable, I would imagine it'd get hot as hell.

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It would depend on the fabric. It's not necessarily becoming watertight -- you're just coating the fibers in a hydrophobic film. If the weave was porous to begin with, it could remain so. As such, it would breathe, but would also permit water through gaps in the weave. So the water would run off both the outside and the inside of the fabric.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Not so you might think. Remember, first and foremost, that repelling water, mid, oil, and other sorts of substances means that your uniform will not get dirty at anywhere near the rate it does now. The chemical process of "getting dirty" involves phenomena that is being inhibited by the coating. You wouldn't have to clean the uniform as often, so dry cleaning isn't as cost prohibitive.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

I totally want to coat my motorcycle with that stuff.

I wonder if this would serve as a semi-permanent rust/corriosion/pitting preventative for hand tools.

I have to keep all of my hand planes, chisels and other similar hand tools coated in a thin film of camilla oil to prevent rust and pitting. The oil is problematic when working with wood that might be stained by it (i.e. soft Spruce or even Maple), or if you are working on something that will be glued or finished.

As it is now, just to be safe, I have to remove the oil from the working surfaces, do my work, then clean up and re-oil. It's quite a pain...