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I found this about nufinish..............don't know if it's accurate or not but an interesting database
Nu Finish Car Polish
Nu Finish Car Polish
What is it with this new breed of "scientists" who are so emotionally invested in their theories (e.g., global warming) that they won't tolerate any dissenting views?
Lance, most of us can't afford to risk ruining a tape recorder on the off chance that you're proven right and there are no ill effects 5, 10, or 20 years down the road. The cost of repairing or replacing damaged parts will be even higher then than it is now. Therefore, your "don't knock it till you try it" argument doesn't hold water. I would much rather cry over a reel of sticky tape than a damaged recorder.
You break the emulsion/suspension with a solvent. Decanter off the polymer laced solvent, evaporate the solvent away leaving only the polymer behind which is a thick oily liquid.
Do not use Nu Finish Car Polish on vinyl, plastic trim, simulated wood, rubber or flat paint. Also, do not use Nu Finish on areas like tile floors and bathtubs. It makes the surfaces extremely slippery and could cause injury to others.
From the Nu Finish website:
Magnetic tape is not a vinyl, wood or a rubber.
Well....it's all over your tapes, so those tapes are going to be polishing the rubber to a nice glaze, but I understand that now you've painted yourself somewhat into a corner since I noticed you hit several "tape" forums on the Internet in the last few days preaching the value of Nu Finish like a barker in a traveling medicine show with 100% conviction that this IS the cure to SSS, even though there has been no lab testing or scientific data to support anything you have to say...so at this point you have little choice but to just push on with your sales pitch, otherwise if you back off now, you'll be virtually "tarred-n-feathered".
Maybe if you create enough buzz, six months from now it will come back full circle as some sort of valid proof because others will also be buzzing about it.
Like I said...don't hesitate to post up actual lab data when you have it.![]()
oooooh ......... balls in your court miroWhere are you located? I'd be happy to send you the treated reel of 407 so you can see for yourself. If so can you be counted on sending the reel back to me?
oooooh ......... balls in your court miro
...Thing is...you really don't know what is happening to the tape on a molecular level, and while most people will take the attitude that they have nothing to lose since they are dealing with tape that is possibly ready for the garbage...I did also notice on one of the other tape forums that the idea has already been put forth to use the Nu Finish as a preventative, on perfectly good tapes with no SSS.
And I think this is the primary point that drives my "no thanks" attitude with this...tape manufacturers had no idea the binder was going to let go from the substrate as a result of hydrolosis after years/decades...NO idea, and yet it happened...after time. Lots of TIME. And yet somehow it seems, Lance, that you are under the assumption that if it seems good now its good forever. Correct me if I'm wrong. I'm not wanting to flame anybody or any idea, but Nu Finish is very clear that Nu Finish polish should not be used on plastic. What do you think the substrate is made out of? I understand that you see this as a surface treatment, that the substrate is irrelevant because you are applying the product to the surface, but how do you know that the product doesn't penetrate the oxide and binder reaching the substrate? And if so what are the long-term effects of the product on the substrate material which is made of that which Nu Finish cautions against applying the product?
One of my favorite products for cleaning up and polishing painted surfaces on machines I refurbish is a product called TR-3. I don't think you can get it anymore. It does have abrasives in it as well as sealants, but what strikes my memory relative to this thread as well as what I'm presenting above is that TR-3 states that it actually soaks into the paint and brings oxidation to the surface to be removed...deep cleaning. Nu Finish is a totally different product and I'm not suggesting it behaves the same as TR-3, but I'm talking about this idea of a product not just working on the very surface, but working within and through the surface material which , molecularly, has wide open spaces.
If the original report....
---Notice that NuFinish comes in a plastic vinyl type plastic container and not a glass or metal container. So exactly how vicious should we expect NuFinish to be?