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L33 said:your car explodes.... :scared
lbls1 said:Why would it have to be removed otherwise if it didn't?
It's like if you paint with watercolour paint. You paint blue on a sheet of paper or canvas. You let it dry. Then you try to paint yellow over it. The water in the fresh paint redissolves the paint and you can get a smeary green.lbls1 said:How would a wax reliquify if you add another coat? I have not seen this happen with a pure wax.
lbls1 said:Ok, but remember wax is supposed to repel water. Carnauba is (like some waxes advertise), in its natural form, a solid coating that has the hardness of a brick. Now if the wax hasn't cured, and you're applying coats on top of it, then you may have some blending there, but even that mix will (....should be..) thicker than the last applied coating. Piled on wax (5 coats in one shot) will not necessarily last longer than a properly cured coat of wax.
Waxes that have a lower content of carnauba will have a lot of additives in its mix, and it is possible some of those ingredients will have cleaning attributes (they should not though in order to be a pure wax). I have more news for you as well........Some cleaner waxes will layer! With my first car, before I knew better, I used to pile on Gliptone's carnauba wax (which in fact was a combination wax and paint cleaner). A few years later after noticing that the paint was dull and had embedded dirt, I compounded the surface, and along with that wax build up a lot of the trapped dirt came up with it. To my surprise I discovered that the paint was very vibrant and shiny, much more than when I had all of that wax on top of it. That's when I discovered that wax will not remove itself from your paint surface until you take it off with a cleaner or harsh soap.
III said:Just was curious what happens when someone doesn't wait at least 24 hours for a polymer to cure before topping with a carnuaba?
detailbarn said:I've had no problems topping AIO with P21S with no wait time and I get about 6 months out of that combo.
BW said:Do you suppose that it could be the build up of contaminates and/or oxidation, instead of the wax physically layering? Just a thought...
Another thing... these threads about spit shining might interest you:
http://www.autopia.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=38121
http://www.autopia.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=38425
^^^
Hm, perhaps the cold water changes the 'form' of the first application of wax, so that the second application doesn't get liquified. A polymer's form of change is crosslinking; maybe temperature could be carnauba's?
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