imported_PiPUK
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TOGWT said:
As I noted above, this is not necessarily true. Yes, I can make you a sprayable wax which has a relatively high solvent/wax content but this is one of the more difficult and expensive methods to use and does not necessarily yield any real benefit. Certainly my liquid wax is practically solvent free (assuming you do not consider water to be a solvent!) - it is produced with high shear emulsification and simply does not need the solvent. It is also a good deal cheaper to do it this way. Polymers - complicated - you chaps use this term very loosely but you tend to mean film forming protectants. Liquid wax products use no more routinely than hard waxes - some do, some don't. On the other hand, the emulsifying agents used in many of the low solvent products will be polymers of a different kind - so in that definition of polymer, yes, they are more common. Whilst these emulsifiers are not polymers in the normal detailing meaning, you are dead right, they tend to give that slightly different look. The lower durability with liquid waxes is not so much down to the wax content. If you think about it, whilst the wax content is lower, there is nothing to stop one using a lot more product to compensate - you can have a layer with exactly the same amount of wax in it from both hard and liquid waxes - but the liquid produced wax will routinely be less durable. The primary reasons for this will be the different character of the layer and the emulsifiers. With a hard wax, you will get a rather uniform layer. With a spray/emulsion wax, you will end up with a layer which is more particulate in nature - the wax is less well bonded to itself and is thus more easily interrupted and removed. The the emulsifiers necessary to get the wax into a liquid form will have some inherent water compatability - this is why they actually succeed as emulsifiers. Unfortunately they are non-volatile and will persist on the surface. Fundamentally these are just surfactants/detergents so can dissolve in any water which impacts the surface and can aid in dissolution of the wax.
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