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<blockquote data-quote="FoxPro5" data-source="post: 5543307" data-attributes="member: 562649">I absolutely agree with all of that, esp the bolded. I&#039;m not trying to make SS look like the bad guy, I was pointing it out.My personal feeling is that does say something about a company if they take the extra step to insure the performance of their product, whether everyone in the damping industry all agrees on THE performance standard or not. There&#039;s a difference between saying you&#039;re the best and actually proving it.The OP asked &quot;which product damps better.&quot; How do we answer that question?Come to think of it, I know Ant has mentioned that he can adjust how much air is used in their adhesive. Besides color, stickyness and smell, that might be the readily obvious difference to the layman between the adhesive used by Dynamat?I&#039;ve played with &quot;pure&quot; butyl puddy and it has a just-sticky-enough property to it....basically midway on the spectrum you described. Thing is though, as temperature drops below freezing it&#039;s stiff and hard almost like glue. This tells me that if the bonafied butyl-based CLD mats did use &quot;pure&quot; butyl it wouldn&#039;t work as well than if they adjusted the mix by adding other &quot;stuff.&quot; I do know what CAE adds, but I don&#039;t know what the others add that seems to be the deal breaker. Thoughts?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FoxPro5, post: 5543307, member: 562649"] I absolutely agree with all of that, esp the bolded. I'm not trying to make SS look like the bad guy, I was pointing it out. My personal feeling is that does say something about a company if they take the extra step to insure the performance of their product, whether everyone in the damping industry all agrees on THE performance standard or not. There's a difference between saying you're the best and actually proving it. The OP asked "which product damps better." How do we answer that question? Come to think of it, I know Ant has mentioned that he can adjust how much air is used in their adhesive. Besides color, stickyness and smell, that might be the readily obvious difference to the layman between the adhesive used by Dynamat? I've played with "pure" butyl puddy and it has a just-sticky-enough property to it....basically midway on the spectrum you described. Thing is though, as temperature drops below freezing it's stiff and hard almost like glue. This tells me that if the bonafied butyl-based CLD mats did use "pure" butyl it wouldn't work as well than if they adjusted the mix by adding other "stuff." I do know what CAE adds, but I don't know what the others add that seems to be the deal breaker. Thoughts? [/QUOTE]

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