Thanks Bob.
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Originally Posted by Bicycle Bob
My can of Lacquer Thinner contains "tolulene, methanol, xylene, methyl ethyl ketone, methyl isobutyl ketone, and butyl acetate or ethyl acetate." Usually, I expect some Acetone.
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That's some names I can relate to
I wonder which one actually prepares the coroplast best.
I don't fancy toluene or xylene, and would rather not work with them.
Methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) is butanone - so essentially it's Acetone with an extra Carbon atom in the chain and similar properties.
Great glue for polystyrene.
MiBK is chemically related, with similar properties to MEK.
MEK and MiBK will also evaporate easily.
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Any such solvent MUST be dried with another towel before it can evaporate, since the industrial grades are contaminated with oil from previous use. Airplanes fell from the sky before we got religious about that.
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How's that then ?
All these chemicals can be had as very high purity liquids.
Don't really know about the acetates, but the rest will evaporate easily and clean off most oily residues.
Maybe they used lower grade, contaminated base products in the mix you used, as it was
just for thinner ?