I'll Paypal money for a six of Newcastle Brown Ale to anyone that can post a reference to a credible, objectively executed drag test that puts to rest the hydrophobic/hydrophilic debate. Preferably with a .edu, .nasa.gov or .navy.mil URL. I have yet to find one.
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OK, but you owe me big time.
I was RC at the Savannah Olympics and we had a couple of lay days. I was staying in my RV behind a warehouse that had a couple of old wrecked cars.
So, I decided to do a speed test on surfaces.
The hood of this car was slightly downhill.
I set up several race tracks for drops of water to compare the time it took for each drop of water to move down it's race course.
Here are the race tracks
1)nothing
2)polish and/or wax
3)McLube
4)Rainex
5)McLube and Rainex
Results (as I vaguely remember them):
1)nothing = the drop did not move
2)polish and/or wax = the drop did not move
3)McLube = 9 seconds
4)Rainex = 11 seconds
5)McLube and Rainex = 1 second
Now if we could just keep McLube and Rainex on our hulls all the time, we would really be hot. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
When I got my diesel RV Stan Woodruff and I pushed it pretty hard and when we arrive at Sandy Hook for the Wave NAs, the boats were pretty dirty from the diesel soot.
Stanly worked hard for hours cleaning his hulls, but meanwhile I had talked to Mary. She explained that diesel soot is a long chain polymer.
I won the regatta. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />
Rick
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