[Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Accessories] bignazpwns:
Liquid optical cured adhesive. No one calls it loca in the industry. It's UV Adhesive. Comes in gel or liquid.

Stuff used for the Whitestone is not even optical quality. It's your bottom of the barrel liquid uv adhesive. I don't testing on this and I'm in the process of evaluating some quality adhesives. I already proved how bad the oem adhesive is, how it's not an optical quality adhesive "hope they are not paying for optical quality because it's not" and shown it simply does not fully cure. This is why it has delamination issues. It's junk every kit being sold uses this same junk adhesive. Proper optical adhesive runs around $20 "price my company gets it in bulk". That amount will do one screen.

In a few days I'll have my final results. I got one adheasive that holds stronger, removes without damage to the protector or screen. Need to look at a few others and look at some gels. A gel will give a bit more impact protection. Slow process because it's the end of the year here and we are pushing to meet final deadlines.

But unlike Whitestone and the others. I'm doing research. I work with fiberoptics so I use this stuff every day. But there are countless types. From the sub $1 tubes of junk Whitestone gives you that's not even optical quality. To stuff that $400 a tube that's 100% optically clear. You can not see the adhesive when cured. But typically around $20-$30 a tube for preformance optical adhesive.

Issues with the adhesive is it does not fully cure. It stays in a what we call green state. Not cured but not wet. Sticky and soft. A corner lifts a little it streaches and delaminates from the glass and screen and you get a spider weed effect. This can not be fixed. A normal adhesive just press down and good to go. But because this stuff is bad from the get go. I'm extremely disappointed with Whitestone. Service is good but the product is absolutely trash. From the thinness and worst olophobic coating I have ever seen. To the cheapest uv adheasive money can't buy. Even the stickers leave residue unlike ones from zag. The clothe they give you is not optical quality either. Very poor and that because no one has reviewed the kit. They make videos on installing it and say it's the best thing ever. Well I put it under a high power microscope, I did test with the stuff so to date I'm the only person who has reviewed this product. And it's not good. You know what I use? A Zagg glass with the adhesive stripped and removed off it and some Dynamax optical adhesive. Zero issues. Great oleophobic coating and I love it.

But I should be done mid week with a few adhesives and part numbers for those who wanna quality product. I'll also post all my test results and I even went as fast as to do sheer test with them. Whitestone's oem was dead last in glass to glass bonding strength. Sample 274g caused it to fail the cheapest stuff we have here was 418g before it failed. But keep in mind I have a full time job and I'm working 14 hour days untill the end of the year so I don't have much free time but I am working on this.

Also anyone in the metro Atlanta area wanna have one installed right let me know I'll put it on for you. You can come in and have it put on in a clean room. That's where I do mine. Nitrogen to blow stuff off is filtered to .04um. one of the joys of working here. There is not a single spec of dust under my screen protector.