On Friday, April 9, 2004, at 10:02 PM, G.Wissenburg wrote:
Kathi and Bruce,
Mail polish remover (the acetone kind) will destroy any plastic parts in
that printer or any other item made from any sort or kind of plastic,
plumbers use acetone to weld (glue) plastic water pipes to each other.
Just my 2 cts worth of advice.
Yeesh, only bad ones.
Commercial plumbing pipe welders are mostly Methyl-ethyl-ketone, or MEK. Acetone is dimethyl ketone, and not as good a solublizer for abs and and pvc, and is far more hydrophilic, meaning there is a lot more water in acetone, so joints made with acetone rather than MEK will have a higher rate of failure.
Word to the wise for you diy'ers out there.
(I spent many years as an analytic chemist before I became a systems admin..and no, I never even thought about using acetone or nail polish remover on the Epson.)
But no, I think I'm going to get one of those cleaning cartridge kits, since the thing's been sitting in a cabinet for months and months; that'll probably be needed to do the trick, as I'll wager other colors are clogged by now as well.
(Nail polish remover is also pretty bad as a solvent as well, since it often contains many other things like lanolin, perfume and other such agents, which are left as residue on the part that's cleaned.
I spent some of my time as an analytic chemist working in an Avon plant...that was one of the products we tested...)
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