Zep wax problem
I did the Zep floor finish process on my motorhome last fall. It looked great but now I am in the desert southwest and the wax is turning white and peeling off only on the stripes on the sides of the ...
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bob_nestor wrote:Except that what I meant was transparent to UV. It is Acrylic based product and therefore does not absorb UV.Daveinet wrote:
Two things. First, ZEP or RMP in relation to UV is completely irrelevant. These products are transparent, which means they are neither harmed by UV,.
Transparent usually means transparent to visible light which is only a small part of the radiation spectrum. Wikipedia defines UV as: Ultraviolet (UV) light is electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength shorter than that of visible light, but longer than X-rays, that is, in the range between 400 nm and 10 nm, corresponding to photon energies from 3 eV to 124 eV. It is so-named because the spectrum consists of electromagnetic waves with frequencies higher than those that humans identify as the color violet. These frequencies are invisible to humans, but visible to a number of insects and birds.
ZEP and RMP could be affected by non-visible components in sunlight. Remember, they are a floor waxes and generally floors are not expected to be exposed to significant amounts of unfiltered sunlight. Poliglow on the other hand was formulated to deal with excessive direct and reflected sunlight.
