09/04/2024
I had the opportunity to completely remove a ceramic coating from a 45 foot Foretravel bus. The owner did not want to have the ceramic treatment reapplied, and for good reason.
Ceramics are a pure sealent and paint should NEVER be sealed in! Paint exhausts and this is a natural process you should never interfere with!
At EDS LLC we use a high-tech polymer that bonds with the paint. Clearcoats and basecoats are types of urethane or polyrethane paints and Permagard Polymer bonds on a molecular level with these layers of paint.
Applied as a 4 micron thick barrier against daily pollutants and normal wear and tear, UV rays and will never need abrasive techniques to touch up under normal conditions.
In the Permagard process, we are removing embedded oxidation and filling those inevitable microscratches all without abrasives.
The Reactive Polymer from Permagard penetrates into the basecoat(pigment) giving a depth in color and, has a gloss that penetrates throughout the basecoat and clearcoat without disturbing the natural exhaustive process of paint.
This is unique and unlike ceramics, polymers are pliable so stone chips are minimized by absorbing the impact of a stone instead of, a hard silica ceramic coating trying to repel a stone from a brittle surface.
Needless to say, what these ceramic installers are NOT telling you are how they touch up a ceramic coating AFTER it shows signs of wear and tear?
Ask them?
They have to use abrasive techniques every time they want to renew the ceramic coating! It's ludicrous! New automobile paint will not endure multiple polishing and abrasives! Just look how easily a stone chip goes right through the paint into the primer or metal? Paint from a brand new automobile are not like in the olden days.
In addition, ceramics have been in use in Europe back in the 90s and they quickly faded away once the truth about them began to surface.
In any case, this Foretravel was already looking dull and once I began to remove the ceramic, which by the way is a process that requires time and consistency. Upon removing the ceramic coating, the paint began to give off the original depth in color and gloss.
It took 3 days to completely remove the ceramic! This is all manual labor and it is very laborous!
There were areas it was thicker and other areas it didn't seem there were anything applied. Whoever applied it also applied it to the chrome! OMG, that is hard as rock, and requires days to remove! Please don't coat chrome or other metals with ceramics!
Ceramics are being applied on all surfaces and this is just getting out of hand!
Not to mention, all these ceramic coatings are Chinese products.
My recommendation, if you have a veteran car that comes out a couple times a year then use your ceramics but, a daily driver, an RV, a boat of any type and especially aircraft, stop buying into this fad and, please stay away from ceramics on aircraft paint!
Ceramics are not approved by any aircraft manufacturer and never will be. They cause issues with static dissipation on aviation surfaces and may interfere with navigational instrumentation.
Ceramics do great on frying pans and electronic components!
Enough about ceramics.
This Foretravel 45 has now an industrial strength polymer paint protection applied and will NEVER have to see the light of a high-speed polisher or abrasive ever again under normal use and wear and tear.
Here are the photos and please go onto Permagard's website at
WWW.PERMAGARD.COM
Each surface is different so, if interested in an industrial strength polymer protection designed for urethane and polyurethane paints and gelcoat on boats, applied by a 27 year Permagard professional veteran, AND manufatured right here in the USA then, please call me, Tommy at (832) 915-6161 or email at [email protected]
