Acetone dissolves polycarbonate very nicely. One of =my= friends discovered this many years ago.
Try this: Get some DEET-containing insect repellent. Immerse the camera in it. The DEET will dissolve the camera, and leave the superglue pellet behind. Remove the pellet. Consult a chemist about precipitating the camera again from the DEET. Easy! Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Sun, 2/15/09, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Bob W <[email protected]> > Subject: A thought experiment involving acetone > To: "'Pentax-Discuss Mail List'" <[email protected]> > Date: Sunday, February 15, 2009, 5:23 AM > Obviously nobody would be so stupid as to do a thing like > this, but let's > just suppose that you had a friend - yea, let's say a > friend, that's good - > who was a complete dork and accidentally dripped > cyanoacrylate superglue > onto the OK button at the back of his camera (it could, > theoretically > speaking and only in your imagination - this could never > happen in the real > world - be an Olympus E-1), such that the button became > jammed. > > If said imaginary but stupid friend were to try and remove > the superglue > using acetone, what would (theoretically) be the effect on > the body seals > and possibly on the electronics, plastics, etc of this > non-existent but > theoretically possible camera? > > In other words, this friend of Homeric dumbness - would he > be about to > destroy the rest of his camera if he were to take this > next, apparently > obvious (but he is stupid, remember), step? > > Thanks, > > Bob (Hey, don't look at me! You think I could be that > stupid?) > > > > "Man will never be free until the last king is > strangled with the entrails > of the last priest" > --- Diderot > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
