Would putting paint remover in a pressure cooker speed up dissolving epoxy? Hey, I'll do it outside...
insane idea...
Jun 14, 2011
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Not sure. But if you use the good pressure cooker, it could speed up your divorce. :)
Only if you do it near open flame.
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I'll use a telephoto lens. No worries.
Potting epoxy? Use a PIC. Well, sort of.
Just get it warm (boiling water or an oven on LOW) and you can pick it apart with a dental pick. Keep dunking it in the water to keep it soft.
There, I just saved your life.
-- Cheers, James Arthur
I use to use methylene chloride, (under a hood with gloves on) to disolve epoxy.
I'd put everything in an air tight container.... for several days.
Nasty stuff.
George H.
I used to use n,n-DIMETHYLACETAMIDE. That was about 50 years ago, so it might no longer be available. Worked well on epoxies back then.
I've always wondered what was on the other end of the hood that was sucking up all the fumes. This was at a university lab.
George H.
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The Department of Psychology, from all evidence.
--Winston
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Its boiling point is 40 degrees C, and it will probably dissolve any plastic or rubber gaskets, so this is probably a bad idea. At least it's not a fire hazard, unless you get really careless.
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Most consumer epoxy resins have a glass transitionj temperature around
60C. if you look hard enough you can find stuff with a glass transition temperature around 140C, and you'd need a higher-boiling temperature liquid for this approach to work.Boiling oil comes to mind - and it fits James Arthur's medieval mind- set.
Of course, I'm over-simplifying. Google for serious data
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Only if you take Grice and dimboobie, too.
It's easy to think outside the box, when you have a cutting torch.
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