Steelheader;23865 wrote:It's a piece of practice glass I got from training at DKits. So I know there's no RainX.
I'll try to be more specific. When I fill in the pit after injecting the resin into the damage, I cure the pit resin with my light. I leave the light on for @ 3-5 minutes. When I try to remove the tab from the windshield, it will not separate from the cured pit resin. The curing tab is "fusing/bonding" to the pit resin when it cures. The edges of the tab that are not in contact with the pit resin obviously aren't sticking. When I grab a corner to peel it off of the repair, the area that is contacting the pit resin rips/breaks from the tab. I destroy my tab and the razor blade becomes very dull when scraping of the remaining pieces of tab that are bonded to the resin. This is now starting to happen on almost every repair.
Was this happening during training? What did DK say? I routinely have tabs that slightly adhere to the pit resin during curing and require no effort to remove let alone tear. They do make a peeling sound though. Even tabs that I have used multiple times have not done this. I also use DK tabs. I would have agree with the others on defective tabs.
Well fellas, these are brand new Delta Kits tabs I used each time. So far, out of @ 15 tabs used (new), @ 10 of them have bonded to the resin.
So I tried a little experiment. I used to opposite side of the tab (portion I was able to save) to cure large pits I created on my practice glass. The tabs peeled off with out a hitch. It seems that if you use one side of these tabs, they will bond/fuse to the resin. If you use the other side, they will peel right off. The problem at this point is trying to figure out which is the "good" side, and which is the "bad" side, when using a new tab.
Oh BTW, I am with Nomad on this. I am frugal by nature, so if I can save/re-use ANYTHING I buy, then I will. I've been trying to shake this on small cost items for years, and I just can't bring myself to dispose of something that is still useful.
SGT;23876 wrote:Was this happening during training? What did DK say? I routinely have tabs that slightly adhere to the pit resin during curing and require no effort to remove let alone tear. They do make a peeling sound though. Even tabs that I have used multiple times have not done this. I also use DK tabs. I would have agree with the others on defective tabs.
When this happened to the guy next to me in training, Matt mentioned that last year they did get a bad batch of tabs. I am wondering if DK got another bad batch from their vendor.
Also the tabs that haven't bonded make the same "peeling" sound you have described.
Today when I found one that would peel off, I used it for 6 practice repairs without cleaning it. Each time it peeled off without a problem.
Try using a piece of plastic, cut from a report cover. (The clear plastic sheets you use to cover a term paper or report in high school or college) . Just cut it into little squares.
Maybe you got some bad cure tabs.
This problem has also been noticed if transparencies for inkjet printers are cut up for tabs. Apparently one side of the transparency is coated to allow the ink to adhere to it and this could bind with the resin and cause the tab to stick.
Photocopy film/transparencies that are designed to work with toner seems to work better and both sides seem to work the same, but may differ by manufacturer.
I suggest just trying another batch or type.
Update: I talked with DK today. They are going to send me some new tabs. They want the ones I have back, to see what exactly is wrong with them. I am wondering if they had a vendor that made the tabs out of the transparencies that Chiprite described? Hmmmmmm.
New Update: I received my new tabs form UPS yesterday. I did a couple of repairs on my practice glass and...Viola! No more fused tabs. Both sides of the tab peeled right off the cured pit resin.
Thank you goes out to Casandra and Matt for taking care of this issue. You can't beat the customer service from Delta.
