Ceramic Coating: Successful!

"getFuckedHerb" (goongetfuckedherb) 06/10/2018 at 22:30 • Filed to: detailing, Ceramic Coating, boatlopnik

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I’ll keep it short, I spent some good time cleaning up and getting our boat ready for some Gyeon Moh’s ceramic coating. I am impressed so far.

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dsigned001 - O.R.C. hunter > getFuckedHerb 06/10/2018 at 23:11

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Witchcraft....

Seriously though, any sources on the chemistry that’s not a bunch of marketing-speak? Best I can tell, it’s either amorphous or crystalline silicon dioxide in the finished product, and there may or may not be a resin that it’s embedded in, with something that may or may not be causing a reaction to evaporate extra oxygen molecules from higher level silicon oxides (e.g. SiO5).

getFuckedHerb > dsigned001 - O.R.C. hunter 06/11/2018 at 00:03

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I will have no part in defending the product to you, be on your way!

In all seriousness, I’ve used a lot of coatings, this is the first that required a full respirator to apply so whatever that means to you. I didn’t request an MSDS on it because my wife is the analytical chemist, not me and I just wanted something that would help cut down on the amount of buffing I have to do to do this damn boat next year. NEVER BUY A BLACK BOAT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.

I have field tested a few different coatings, never a “nano” / “ceramic” coating, this one creates a very different feel to others that seem to last 3-6 months with decent care. I will gladly report back on if this lasts the summer, and my general thoughts. Initial thoughts are, if it does 2/3 of what it says it will for 1/2 as long as it says I’m sold.

dsigned001 - O.R.C. hunter > getFuckedHerb 06/11/2018 at 00:56

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Silicon dioxide in any kind of microscopic form is potentially nasty stuff. But even quartz isn’t particularly durable, which makes me think this is likely a suspension in some sort of binder. The glass (or quartz - amorphous is glass, crystalline is quartz) provides the “hardness” (and possibly abrasion resistance), and maybe some sort of fancy epoxy provides the toughness. I found a thing on silicon dioxide film deposition for optical lenses where they use an electron beam to “evaporate” other oxides into silicon dioxide, and so I’m wondering if there’s a chemical alternative to precipitate silicon dioxide in a way that would keep the uniform coating.

getFuckedHerb > dsigned001 - O.R.C. hunter 06/11/2018 at 10:52

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Based on the smell I can tell you this stuff contains some serious solvents. The fact that they don’t suggest you leave the bottle open during application also tells me they are extremely volatile to air.

They measure the thickness of this stuff in fractions of micros (0.19 microns when dry) so it is at best a sealant with some anti-marring ability and hopefully good hydrophobic qualities.

What it isn’t, and I laugh when people try to say some nano coating is, is protection against rock chips or other things film protection can provide.

For ones expensive toy car, you’d want clear film, this coating, and then some of the other higher gloss/lower durability coatings over it.