On Tue, 5 Nov 2013 05:07:41 -0500, you wrote: >Is Carbon Tet still easily available? I've used it for cleaning stuff back >in my USAF days, along with 1,1,1 Trich. I know Trich ain't available >anymore.
Trich was supposed to be a safer replacement for Carbon Tet, but wasn't as effective a solvent for some substances. It's replacement Forane was even less effective. AFAIK they are all generally unavailable or even banned now because of health risk and/or ozone depletion problems. Rolls Royce in Derby UK. still use Carbon Tet in large quantities. They service jet engines at that facility and the engines are soaked in the stuff. It's the only solvent that works effectively for removing burnt on grunge from the turbine blades and inside the combustion chambers. They claimed without it they could not service them. I was told they had to get some sort of special license/dispensation from the UK government, and the plant has all sorts of HAZMAT measures in place. Steve Blackmore -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ November Webinars for C, C++, Fortran Developers Accelerate application performance with scalable programming models. Explore techniques for threading, error checking, porting, and tuning. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60136231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
