[jr2]

Anyone heard of this?  Anyone tried it?

[Phantom Hoover]

There's a catch. I mean, I have no idea what you're actually talking about since I can't see the video, but there's always a catch.

[Rodo]

It probably causes skin rash, or something worst.

[Lorric]

The video was quite fascinating, and it got my mind to working on possibilities...

However, a quick google yielded this for some food for thought:

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2013/07/neverwet_review_the_water_repelling_spray_is_no_miracle_product.html

So it looks like while it's not snake oil, you need to be careful with your expectations and whether what you want to use it for is possible.

Hopefully they'll be able to improve on their new product down the line. Just imagine if it worked perfectly what inventive minds would be able to do with it...

[Phantom Hoover]

I'm guessing this is some sort of hydrophobic coating, in which case my bet is that it's a useful tool but not reliable, one size fits all waterproofing.

[Klaustrophobia]

this same **** pops up every year or two with a different name.  it's even got the same promo video where they coat the edge of the glass and it makes the square of water on the inside.  i've never done any real research into it, but figure there's probably a very good reason they keep trying and it never takes off.  it's kinda like that "UNLIMITED DETAIL!!!!" thing that happened in video games not that long ago. 

[headdie]

the mag is probably not the best application for this.  my understanding of how this stuff works is that it is best used when there is no break in the seal as like phantom says, it's a hydrophobic coating so is designed to make water run off the object rather than create a watertight seal between moving parts.  this means its great for applications like mobile phones because you can coat the electronics and as nothing moves they will be protected but something like the mag in Lorric's vid where the seal will be broken then there is no point because it isnt a seal, for that I bet a high temp resistant silica gel would work much better, though how you would waterproof the chamber and eject mechanism is beyond me.

[redsniper]

Yeah but you can see in the video that the coating starts to wear off of the magazine pretty quickly. I don't think anyone was claiming it should be a watertight seal, just that it makes liquids bead up and run off like you said.

My best guess here is that since nothing likes to stick to this stuff, it doesn't stick very well to surfaces either and gets rubbed off way too easily.

[headdie]

My best guess here is that since nothing likes to stick to this stuff, it doesn't stick very well to surfaces either and gets rubbed off way too easily.

depends, it probably works like shark's skin creating a highly textured surface where in contact with air or something like that to minimise the contact area between the water droplets and the material due to stuff like surface tension.  if thats the case then it could bond very well to the applied surface but without data to quantify that I dont know what it's durability is like

[TwentyPercentCooler]

I have a friend who uses something like this (although the stuff he uses is also oleophobic - it repels oils) on the bottom of the fenders on his dirtbikes and in the wheel wells of his truck. It leaves a little bit of a haze and it has to be reapplied every so often, but spending all day romping in the mud and coming home with spotless fenders does save a lot of time and frustration. This crappy red clay garbage that lurks in the ground here (NC) is really hard to clean.

[Klaustrophobia]

hey, didn't think about that.  i still haven't been able to get off all the concrete dust from several months ago.  because cutting out and re-pouring huge slabs of the major highways in the region in the early evening sounds like a smashing idea to virginia DOT.