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Title: Glass Plus, or Windex?
Post by: Ward Van Duzer on November 23, 2006, 11:46:09 AM: Time was we all had to use Glass Plus to clean our planes with. Now, I read from Granderson, et al, that we're supposed to clean with Windex (six times?) before you apply the paint. Of course, Windex now has a variety of products, to add to the confusion.

Comments please from you finishing Guru's!

HB~>
Title: Re: Glass Plus, or Windex?
Post by: Bill Little on November 23, 2006, 12:58:18 PM: Quote from: Ward Van Duzer on November 23, 2006, 11:46:09 AM
Time was we all had to use Glass Plus to clean our planes with. Now, I read from Granderson, et al, that we're supposed to clean with Windex (six times?) before you apply the paint. Of course, Windex now has a variety of products, to add to the confusion.

Comments please from you finishing Guru's!

HB~>

What ever happened to Prep Sol??????

I use Simple Green, diluted quite a bit. Full strength, it will remove paint!
Title: Re: Glass Plus, or Windex?
Post by: Ward Van Duzer on November 23, 2006, 02:11:41 PM: Quite?
Title: Re: Glass Plus, or Windex?
Post by: Bill Little on November 23, 2006, 02:36:04 PM: About an inch, or so, in a 20 oz. spray jar and the rest water.
Title: Re: Glass Plus, or Windex?
Post by: Mark Scarborough on November 23, 2006, 08:56:41 PM: When prepping a surface to paint, typically I will wash with a soap and water solution, NO dishwashing soap, it has additives to promote water sheeting, They concern me as they can leave residue. then I will use two clean lint free towels, one saturated with prep solvent, and the other dry. the "ultimate" method is to wipe only one direction, flooding the surface with solvent then with the dry towel wipe the same direction to push the contaminants that are emulsified off the edge of the surface. I use a torx product paper towel for cleaning. Make sure that you allow the surface some time to evacuate all the solvents before you attempt to spray on them.
FWIW I dont use PPG prep sol
Title: Re: Glass Plus, or Windex?
Post by: Patrick Rowan on November 23, 2006, 10:08:09 PM: I use Windex. Works good.
Title: Re: Glass Plus, or Windex?
Post by: Ward Van Duzer on November 24, 2006, 02:35:48 PM: Which Windex?
Title: Re: Glass Plus, or Windex?
Post by: Bill Little on November 24, 2006, 02:42:35 PM: I guess all we are looking for is an agent to clean and "de-grease" the surface, and will not leave anything around to harm the adhesion of the paint, correct ???
Title: Re: Glass Plus, or Windex?
Post by: ptg on November 24, 2006, 05:58:39 PM: Just the regular Blue Windex. This is to clean after sanding filler coats. It is also to clean the color coats just before you spray the clear. Degreasers don't remove dust and sanding residue. I suppose other glass cleaners might work but Windex (the regular Blue stuff) is a sure thing! I've bet my last 12 finishes on it!
P.T. Granderson
Title: Re: Glass Plus, or Windex?
Post by: Jerry Bohn on November 24, 2006, 06:17:27 PM: For general plane cleaning, I have been using plain blue Windex with a teaspoon of 409 added to the gallon. I suppose other cleaners like Simple Green and Windex would work also to take castor off the plane after each couple flights. I have been using that mixture for 15 years with no problems and good results.
Title: Re: Glass Plus, or Windex?
Post by: Ward Van Duzer on November 26, 2006, 09:11:30 AM: So now we know!

Tanks!