national Battalion/Page 14 February 25,11 Coating invented to protect walls Driver tries to wipe out graffiti United Press International NEW YORK — The search for a weapon to foil graffiti van dals has produced a new knight to tilt lances with the army of spray can varlets. Graffiti Control System Inc., of Tempe, Ariz., has acquired a formula for an anti-graffiti coat ing invented by a crusading ex bus driver from Boston, Victor Rancourt. “The product is a special clear polyester resin that resists penetration by spray paints or any other paint or stain,” Dick Doane of the Tempe firm said. “You brush, spray or roll on over a painted surface, prefer ably a latex paint. Then any graffiti, even that written with a so-called ‘permanent’ felt mar ker pen, can be wiped off quick ly with a rag and solvent.” Doane said there are acrylic or epoxy resins on the market. They can remove any graffiti that can be dissolved by deter gent and high water pressure without damaging the under lying surfaces. But all are sold with warnings recommending repainting after using a strong solvent to remove the graffiti. He said that’s nearly as expen sive as sandblasting the surface and repainting. On the other hand, Doane said, the resin formulated by Rancourt is completely resistant to a strong solvent he developed that will remove virtually all graffiti quickly. Rancourt was a sort of knight. Graffiti offended him, Doane said, and he went about the country in his spare time for seven years giving free demon strations of his discovery and making no serious attempt to market it. “Then he had a massive heart attack and decided he would have to capitalize on his discov ery,” Doane said. “We bought it and began marketing it in March 1981.” Doane’s firm has licensed 15 distributors for the product. Most of them are on the West Coast, and some are in the Mid west, including UniSource In dustries Inc. of Chicago. He said, however, the big market probably is in the eastern cities and they haven’t even started to tap that area yet. Stuart Packer of UniSource said lab tests indicate the coating will last indefinitely indoors and probably up to 15 years out doors. The tests show the coat ing protects the paint under neath and provides a relatively easy way to get rid of graffiti. The coating is not cheap, though. The original applica tion will cost more than a coat of paint and, of course, should be applied over new or good paint. It can be applied only at temper atures above 50 degrees but once on will withstand virtually any temperature. Packer said UniSource, which engages in general building maintenance, had sold about 185 kits to businesses and schools in the Chicago area and found the coating worked about as well on brick or porous sur faces as on hard surfaces. The monetary losses graffiti vandals can cause on business premises costs millions of dol- ars. On public premises such as schools and New York City’s subways, the losses would be even greater if the writings had to be removed quickly. In New York the subway au thorities fight an expensive and losing battle with the graffiti vandals. Doane said his com pany has talked with the New York Transit Authority but it hasn’t sold any of the product to them yet. Neither Doane nor Packer could offer any explanations for graffiti vandals. “As far as I can tell,” Packer said, “they’re just people that can’t stand seeing anything that looks nice.” Doane was inclined to accept the theory that most graf fiti van dalism is the work of young adult gangs, and the inscriptions are a kind of code understand able only to the vandals them selves. s N N N s N s s !> N N 8 S Now, for the Gourmet Cook, We Carry: Woks to Utensils Cookbooks to Dinnerware 20% off all Cookware Sat. Only The Smurfs Have Arrived!! 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