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[ST] Rain-X: Safe for contact lenses?



My Grammy always told me, "No good deed goes unpunished"

Let's try to do this in some sort of order.  I didn't say that Rain-X
contained Acetone, just that "it smells like" that.  Several other folks
agree with you that it "smells like" alcohol.  So what?

The people who make Rain-X, who employ at least one chemist, I assume,
evidently believe that their product is harmful to plastics and the
films that protect them.  Why does anyone want to argue with them?  When
you chatted with Mr. X, did he explain their warning in light of the
various "experiments" performed by selfless individuals who either can't
read or don't want to be bothered?

You are correct as to the Scientific Method, however it requires a
little more than rubbing on a substance and saying, "Looks OK to me."
That's anecdotal evidence.

Look guys, it boils down to this:  Take my advice, use plastic cleaners
and wax on your plastics and you can DO NO HARM.  Take yours and
someone/somewhere will watch as the coating on their
visor/windscreen/whatever turns sort of brown and flakes off.  Ask me
how I know, I don't always read the label myself.  (I didn't say I never
used the stuff on a visor, just that I don't now.)  : ()

I really don't care what YOU put on your plastics, I just think it is a
little irresponsible for you to tell someone else to use a product in
spite of the fact that the people who make it say you should not.   Use
whatever you want and if must recommend the practice, at least warn
people that you could be costing them 30 to 50 bucks if their visor
doesn't survive  the experiment.

Now, IMHO, that's enough of this silly thread.   It's been fun, but it's
starting to smell like last weeks baitfish.  Let's go back to arguing
whether you should measure tire circumference down to 100th or 1000th
for those cute little bicycle speedos.

Lord love's a duck.

Andy
Andrew F. Kay, Jr., King
Riders of the Lost Empire, LC
www.lostempire.com
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