On Saturday, March 13, 2021 at 9:56:31 AM UTC-8, wrote:
On Saturday, March 13, 2021 at 1:44:06 AM UTC-5, John wrote:
Fellow glider friends. My 6 year old Porsche just underwent its first ceramic coat treatment. The car looks brand new and is much more dirt resistant and hardly gets dirty at all. The results are amazing just how slippery and easy to clean. It is supposed to last 7 years. It is so slippery, my cats hate it and won’t jump and walk on my car anymore which makes it so worth it. I am extremely interested if anyone has tried this on a gel coat glider. Glidecoat even has an aviation formula and a boat formula designed for gel coat watercraft.
Has anyone tried it? What is the UV protection? Glidecoat name sure fits our hobby too. Any other ceramic coat brands might be better engineered for gel coat? My car was done in ceramic pro.

https://www.glidecoat.com/product/ma...ramic-coating/

Hawes
It says 18 months, not 7 years, protection and it does say protection from UV. My guess is that this is the same stuff they have been selling since the 18th century ... snake oil.

Ceramic coatings are not "snake oil" - they work.

I have used this ceramic coating on my ASH31Mi:

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Gtechniq-...tion/246865152

Here is an AOPA video about ceramic coatings:

https://aopalive.aopa.org/detail/vid...ircraft-finish

This a video on how to apply it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64dZX4Ujdr8

Tom