Poli Glow

[R Rae]

Instead of applying the regular wax and polish approach, does anyone have any experience with 'Poli Glow'

I understand it to be a polymer type material instead of wax.

Thanks,

Ron

[Paul S]

Have not used it. Heard good things about it.

I have used colinite 870 cleaner/wax with woderful results. I used 3m Heavy duty cleaner wax before with good results, but it did not last too long. The colinite, which I tried this year, looked better, and lasted the entire season looking good (other than the typical battle scars we got).

[kmclemore]

Ron, suggest you make a search using the 'Search' link above. Put in "poli glow" and click the 'search all terms' button. You'll get quite a few entries that apply directly to what you need to know.

[Highlander]

Well I'm extremely happy with it just used 2 coats this summer they recommend 4 or 5 coats so I'll finnish the job in the spring, best applied on a cool day it will streak if its to hot I did post pic's on this

John.

[tangentair]

I decided to check this out and went to the web site.

Apply Poli Glow to the applicator amd allow a minute to soak into applicator. Pick a small 2' x 2' flat surface to see what Poli Glow will do. Working in small sections (3-4 foot), lightly wipe Poli Glow onto the surface in thin

It may be great, it must be great, how else could one find a small 3 or 4 foot section in a 2 foot by 2 foot square flat surface.
Do I really want buy from a company whose quality control does not include spelling or spacial relationships?
Nice thing about being old, grumpy comes naturally

[Trouts Dream]

It seemed obvious to me that they meant (3 or 4 SQUARE FOOT sections) and of course a 2 x 2 would be a 4 foot square section.
Hope this helps.

[R Rae]

Thanks all for the quick input

Cheers

R

[bobmonroe]

I used Poli Glow on my 32' RV about 5 years ago, the shine lasted about 2 years. I used it on the X about three years ago, worked well, I've had to redo the black several times, keeps it looking good. It's not hard to use, but takes a lot of time, because to get a good shine without streaks takes several coats.

[Rich Smith]

I used Poliglow for 4 years on my I was very happy for the first couple of years although I did start to notice a slight yellowing towards the end of the 3rd season.

I figured that I would strip off the Poliglow using the Poliprep solution and reaply to get rid of the yellowing...That's when things got ugly!!! It's a nightmare to remove the stuff. I went through 3 bottles of PoliPrep trying to remove it and was still not 100% happy with the outcome. At that point I switched back to wax.

Although the boat truly looks good when you first apply it, I won't use it again because of the problems I had trying to strip it off...

Cheers,
Rich.

[R Rae]

Rich says: "Although the boat truly looks good when you first apply it, I won't use it again"

After doing a search in the archives, I am left with the impression many people start off very enthusiastically and then, when the 'yellows' set in,
lose a lot of their prior interest in the product.........Hhmmmm!

Think I'll go back to wax and elbow grease for now.

Ron

[Erik Hardtle]

I used Newglass2. It goes on easy and comes off easy. To keep it at it's best I reapply each year, the application only takes 30 Seconds per coat.

You can see the results here.

Here is a link to their site: http://www.newglass2.com

[R Rae]

Erik nice gallery of pictures. The finish does look impressive.
How many years have you been applying the stuff?

Thanks,

Ron

[Erik Hardtle]

I've been using it for about 3-4 years.(since 2004)

I try to apply 4 new coats a year before each sailing season. Didn't do it last year, but did it this year. Before I did this year I used Mary Kate/tilex, it pretty much takes all the stuff off, then light wet sanded (600 grit) the black area, then did 4 more coats of newglass2. (I had to show off for the ncsail.org Pirate Fest 07.)