New! Collinite Spray Wax

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Lemonxxs

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This is for normal folks with smaller garages.



Where in the heck do you store all the crap a household collects? I must have one side full of decorations and kid toys. The other side has bikes, more toys, and more junk. Heck I had a garage sale too.



I need 2 garages one for junk and one for cars.



Oh yeah too hot here to put much in the attics unless you like your things melted. Time to buy a sanctuary or new house I guess.



Guess I have to talk to the architectural committee in my Subdivision or move to the country!
 
Guess, in our part of the country we all have full basements :) not to mention a shed in the back



you can also rent space, too
 
I was born in the North. New york to be exact!



Well basements down here are non exisitent. Water table is like 2 inches below grade. Turn a shovel you get water.



Sheds are very common here as well.
 
Finally able to try something new, but it's not the wax, it's the method of application :devil:

Collinite Insulator Wax No. 845 comes in a plastic bottle with a medication type cap. I was not a huge fan so I put it in an 8oz dispensing bottle. 845 needs to be spread really thin, and it will go a long ways. After having the wax for a few months, the consistency literally went from a paste, to a liquid. Having used 845 before, I know that after I apply it and it sits, I am buffing off a good deal of residue, which is wasted product.

I grabbed a bottle from the cabinet that was empty and washed it out. After adding some 845, I screwed on a finger trigger sprayer that was used for misting hair product. After giving it a series of pumps, the wax reached the sprayer and came out in a fine mist.

Here are some images to show the process.

845 and foam applicator
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One light spritz
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Spreads very thin and even, was very easy to buff of with little residue :)
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What do you think?
 
Street Dreams said:
Go with some tape, save the MF!

Very nice idea, I have only used 845 a few times and although I think it protects well its application was a paint. Good idea
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Thanks David. I will try to get a dedicated sprayer instead of using this one. I would have used a trigger sprayed, but the mist was crucial as I was looking to conserve product and create a thin even layer. I find that it does protect really well and looks good, but it was weird working with such a thin liquid in an awkward bottle.
 
WOW! I just went and tried the same thing. It works. I have a bottle of 845 that went to mush as well. I wondered if it was still good. Maybe I will use it as a spray. Thanks for the tip.

So what's the deal? Is 845 still good when it goes to liquid?







:White Horse:
 
biolink said:
WOW! I just went and tried the same thing. It works. I have a bottle of 845 that went to mush as well. I wondered if it was still good. Maybe I will use it as a spray. Thanks for the tip.

So what's the deal? Is 845 still good when it goes to liquid?

:White Horse:
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After the initial usage and a little more room is made in the bottle I made sure I liberally shook it before using every time. It had gotten the liquid consistency a long time ago through proper storage and usage. I am looking at getting 4 ounce or 8 ounce finger sprayers to use this with. I believe this could save me product and for anyone who has used it knows the consistancy. Especially trying to put product on a foam applicator and getting it to spread evenly. So much easier on the vertical panels to just mist it on and spread it thin.
 
If you're looking for a small spray bottle with a very fine spray try one made for eyeglass cleaners. I find they put out a very fine even mist.
 
biolink said:
So what's the deal? Is 845 still good when it goes to liquid?
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To readdress this, I talked with Patrick from Collinite and this was his response

What you experienced with the consistency of the #845 is, in fact, normal. The product has a way of loosening up a bit over time going from soft paste/gel to thick liquid, especially based on the temperatures it finds itself in. To loosen the consistency of mine up, I usually submerge the bottle in a bucket of hot water for 5 minutes and then shake. Sounds kind of funny, but it works. Some prefer the viscosity of the gel, others the pourable nature of the liquid. Whatever the form, and as long as the product is shaken thoroughly, performance is the same.
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snowman said:
If you're looking for a small spray bottle with a very fine spray try one made for eyeglass cleaners. I find they put out a very fine even mist.
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I think that's a good idea, but the wax is still a liquid/gel, so it would be hard to spray it that fine. The hairspray bottle is working excellent, and I am finding the product to apply completely different and 100% easier to spread thin and remove.
 
I did this last weekend: I put a new bottle of Collinite in a pot of hot water to liquify it; shook it well, and poured some into a small sprayer. It worked great. When the wax in the sprayer started to thicken, I put it in a shallow pot of hot water to re-liquify it. I was able to get a thin, consistent, even coat on the car using the sprayer (especially on vertical panels).
 
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