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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.
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Quebec cabinet officer quits
in wake of shoplifting arrest
United Press International
QUEBEC — One of the
longest-serving members of
Quebec Premier Rene Leves
que’s Cabinet announced his
resignation after being arrested
last weekend for shoplifting.
Claude Charron, a 12-year
veteran of the Quebec Legisla
ture and a member of the separ
atist government, looked tense
and drawn but spoke without
emotion as he told reporters ab
out the incident.
In his letter of resignation,
Charron, 35, told Levesque “I
have no longer the quality to sit
at your side.”
Charron, according to court
officials, was scheduled to
appear Wednesday in Municipal
Court after being arrested for
stealing a jacket from Eaton de
partment store in Montreal on
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ron said. “I had one on,n
paid for the other wiili|
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