Kent Rubber Care

[Chad.S]

I have a shop that we overhauled a bunch of their products and this is one that I wasn't sure what to replace it with. It needs to be aerosol and silicone free.

They use it for assembly and dissasembly of bumper covers, said that it helps them get the bumper covers on and off much easier than with nothing, sounds like it evaporates and doesn't leave them slippery after the fact. Everybody in the shop loves using it for this so trying to figure out what I could replace it with.

Anybody have any thoughts??

 

['68 Coronet R/T]

Might check out Chemical Guys.

Mat ReNew Rubber + Vinyl Floor Mat Cleaner and Protectant | Chemical Guys

Mat ReNew Cleaner and Protectant is the first product designed specifically to quickly clean and restore rubber floor mats back to original condition without the greasy and slippery feel and look.

www.chemicalguys.com

 

[Chad.S]

Might check out Chemical Guys.

Mat ReNew Rubber + Vinyl Floor Mat Cleaner and Protectant | Chemical Guys

Mat ReNew Cleaner and Protectant is the first product designed specifically to quickly clean and restore rubber floor mats back to original condition without the greasy and slippery feel and look.

www.chemicalguys.com

That does kinda look like it may work if silicone free, but it's still not a product I am a distributor for.
I am now a griots distributor as well I am going to email them.

 

[Chris_Hamilton]

Chad not to sound like a D@@K but if they are happy with the product why switch to something unknown? I always hated when distributors/jobbers would do this. "Here, use this, just as good". Usually it wasn't.

Unsolicited advice or thoughts (the worst kind I know) but seeing it's a relatively small piece of the pie, buy a few cases of the stuff, and keep supplying it to them. Maybe you won't make much on that one product but you'll keep that Shop happy and I think the goodwill that will entail will have benefits down the road. Again, JMO.

 

[Chad.S]

They kicked the Kent company out of their shop. And this is just one product they asked me to find something comparable.

 

[texasking]

Used many of the Kent products, then similar products started selling a jobber from IES instead. They might have something like it. IES 1422 maybe? IES 4537? https://internationalepoxies.com/catalog/IES_Catalog.pdf

 

[Chris_Hamilton]

They kicked the Kent company out of their shop. And this is just one product they asked me to find something comparable.

Understood.

 

[Treeslayer]

im product dumb Chad. is that a conditioner or a lubricant? as far as rubber lube goes, wouldnt veg soap work fine and be easy to clean off? im thinking of tire lube of course. it can be had any where from a liquid to a snot like consistency.

 

[Chad.S]

Used many of the Kent products, then similar products started selling a jobber from IES instead. They might have something like it. IES 1422 maybe? IES 4537? https://internationalepoxies.com/catalog/IES_Catalog.pdf

Ohh. I forgot about IES. If what I found doesn't work for them I will look at this stuff.

 

[Chad.S]

im product dumb Chad. is that a conditioner or a lubricant? as far as rubber lube goes, wouldnt veg soap work fine and be easy to clean off? im thinking of tire lube of course. it can be had any where from a liquid to a snot like consistency.

On this product I feel that way as well. It's a cleaner but for some reason they are using it as a lube to snap bumpers together. but being a cleaner, my guess is that once it dries the lube characteristics are gone.

 

[Chad.S]

We found a product by polyvance. going to take that to them and see if they like it.