Latex and silicone -- the stickiness factor

[AptaMer]

I'll see what I can find out, after all, it has to be a fairly standard industrial process, so there should be info on how to do it out there on the internet.

The video refers to the Hydroglove suit, so I looked up the website shown at the end of the video ( http://www.hydroglove.com/ ) and it seems like this is a company making reproductions of the old-style dive suits, and they say they chlorinate them. No info on their site about how to chlorinate, but it's obviously feasible for a small operation to do. Maybe latex mertail makers could do it too?

Fire up your Google searches mergeeks!

Edit: I spoke too soon. A search for mermaids and chlorination turned up a person who has posted a description of how it's done, and she will chlorinate pre-existing latex things!

http://rubenesquelatex.com/node/22

She makes a latex mermaid tail! http://rubenesquelatex.com/node/50

so it looks like you actually can get a chlorinated latex mermaid tail, although it looks like she's just using solid colours. one could email her to find out more, I suppose. Also, could ask her about chlorinating an existing tail.

It sounds like chlorination is done with some pretty dangerous stuff (ie don't do this at home) I think this merits a new thread