[Shotimes] Re: Window Tinting

[Jim and Debbie Leyden]

Energy efficient structural glass is called Low-E glass.  They have not been
able to port the technology over to automobiles as of yet because it is not
a coating on the class but a different manufacturing process that allows the
glass to act like a mini blind that only blocks the UV light.  Since houses
don't move and the windows are (for the most part) vertical, it is quite
simple to make glass that can block UV from above.  With cars it isn't quite
that easy.

Jim
'93 MTX
no tint, nothing visible that doesn't look stock.



-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
[mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Donald Mallinson
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 11:40 AM
To: SHOtimes
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Re: Window Tinting


Windows for homes come with a UV treatment that blocks the
heat rays and damaging UV rays, but not so much of the
light.  I think some advanced window tints for cars can do
the same thing.

As we know from sunburns, it is not the bright light of the
sun that burns and causes heat, it is the other light
output.  You can get a sunburn worse on a cloudy day because
you "think" you are protected, but in truth, a cloudy day
will burn you just as much as a cloudless day.

I prefer to see at night, and would hope I would not need
the dark tint to hide from flying bullets!  (why do you
think inner city youth/gangsters, had tint first, and why
they lay seats back so they are down low and behind the
center pillar?  To hide from being shot at!

Don Mallinson

Alan Fanning wrote:
> And in my case, at least, I found that the amount of heat blocked by the
> tint was not proportional to the amount of light blocked, so an x% darker
> tint bought me less than x% heat blockage benefit. For aging eyes with
> not-so-good night vision, this might be something worth considering.
>
>     Alan
>
>
>>I believe the percentage figure refers to the amount of light let in,
>>not the amount that is blocked.
>>
>>
>>Mike Wojton
>
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