I do agree with you cavx, "clear" is probably not the best way to describe the soles and translucent or transparent is more of an appropriate description of "icy" soles. This is an old article but gives a bit of insight into the differing opinions of icy soles:
http://theshoegame.com/articles/icy-sole-cleaner-tips.html
Nice that you got an extra role on flipper mate, that's a very iconic Aussie series!
It was actually shot for US TV and I have never seen the final production of the show. It was never aired on Australian TV (as far as I know) and I've never seen it on DVD either.
Interesting article in the link.
I was hoping there was going to be more on this
Yellowing. Everyone has their own methods of preventing this, bags, silica packets, darkness, but it seems inevitable for it to happen. Short of never wearing the sneaker ever, it will eventually even if its just slightly worn outside. There are chemicals and such created to stop this but really, it’s just slowing the process down at best. Can it be prevented? Sure. Keyword: PREVENTED, not stopped, not ceased, not reversed, just prevented.
And then something just hit me about the colour change we see and we need use the photo I posted with the back pack/bum bag as as example. I've always thought of exposure to the UV and sunlight as a fading effect (sun bleached) and direct exposure certainly can certainly do that. However, maybe general UV exposure has a different effect. The two bags were the same colour when I bought them as I actually bought the entire line of luggage at the same time. The biggest bag in the set is still the same colour as the back pack, yet the bum bag has turned much darker over the years. This darkening has happened from being exposed to UV everyday from wearing it even though the bum bag was never left in direct sunlight, rather it was stored inside the back pack.
Our "clear soles" (translucent soles, call them what you want) all have yellow in them, even if that yellow is not noticeable to the naked eye when they are new. What I found when making my clear V2 soles was that by adding a small amount of translucent blue (I used royal blue at just 5 drops to the 1KG of Part B) the rubber was indeed more clear after mixing, degassing and pouring. So adding this blue was having a filtering effect and I spoke about this in one of my YouTube videos. For those that did't see that video, I likened the dying of the soles the same as how the water in a swimming pool makes the white tiles look blue when full of water. Drain the pool and the tiles are white. The water filters out the red end of the spectrum of visible light. Adding blue to my clear soles material or by dying the surface of the V3 blue, filters out the red end of the spectrum of visible light.
So we all know that UV exposure changes the colour. Sun light contains all wave lengths from UV right down to infrared and so does all artificial light from sources like Fluorescent lights or LEDs in our home. So even if you have a dark room to store them in (as I do), at some point, they get exposed to UV anyway, even if they never see the "light of day".
So what I am suggesting is that UV has the tendency to darken colours as can be seen with the bum bag (which stored inside the back pack). So based on this, it might be safe to say that UV darkens the yellow in the base material, making it more visible over time and it is the other components of light that bleach or lighten the colours but as we don't purposely expose our shoes to sunlight, the effects of UV are greater over time. Is that make sense or I am in need of a glass of red wine?
