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Say that three times fast after three shots of rum. ;)' Frank I need to correct myself. I should say that a couple of good polished on coats of Rain X should do the trick on acrylic. This guess is based on my applying one light coat to the front interior glass panel of a 10 gallon aquarium that had been dry for a long time. I had always noticed that when I first set up a new aquarium or one that had been dry for some time that I had to wipe off the tiny bubbles. I think he tiny bubbles hold on to tiny voids and/or imperfections in the glass surface that the Rain X smooths over. http://www.frappr.com/?a=viewphoto&id=4001713&pid=7686344 I've seen a whipper to clean algae and other things off a dome for a submersible research station. So you could do some thing like that as well, but that would require a thru hull and I suspect that Rain-X will do the trick. Another option that might work better is a couple of water jets that blow water at the surface you want the bubbles to be removed from. Ben from the Bionic Dolphin has a friend that works for the company that makes Rain-X, and he said he would get back to me months ago as to what his friend said about whether Rain-X would damage acrylic or not. I know MEK makes the surface all pretty. ;)' Ya don't use MEK. NEVER EVER I saw that picture of the submersible research station in the Stachiw book last night. Yep you heard me right I'm reading the Stachiw book. How cool is that. I figured we could have a ticker take parade. with mermaids and all. Some how I thought it would be bigger. Your resident bubble dreamer ;)' Regards, Szybowski From: brenthartwig@hotmail.com To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org Subject: RE: [PSUBS-MAILIST] All Clear Acrylic K-250 & K-350 MBT's Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 11:51:48 -0700 I know a couple of good polished on coats of Rain X will do the trick pretty well. I'll have to ask Karl what he does on Idabel's outer clear front MBT. I don't know why tiny bubbles on a outer, free flooding acrylic surface, would be any more of a problem then any outer surface of a acrylic viewport. Your resident pipe dreamer ;)' Regards, Szybowski From: ShellyDalg@aol.com Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 13:50:11 -0400 Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] All Clear Acrylic K-250 & K-350 MBT's To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org One problem was the tiny bubbles cloud the exterior plexi shield/dome/mbt
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