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From: Mark Delaney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [VFB] Calling all chemists
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 23:46:31 -0600
I've thinned the stuff with toluene and it DOES work. Murf there is a reason you aren't supposed to seal gasoline tanks with silicone, which is also toluene soluble. Gasoline always contains at least a little bit of toluene along with alot of other alkanes (and depending on where you live some oxygenated organic compounds). Polystyrene cups, foamed or not, are also soluble in toluerne. The stuff is a pretty good solvent.
Mark Delaney
On 1/4/06, Joyce's crafts and flies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Not a chemest, but thinning Goop II red label with Toluene or sometimes
called Tolunol, available in the paint department of your local Home Depot,
Ace, Lowe's, works well. I usually thin it with about 1/3 Toluene and 2/3
Goop II (or silicone seal also works well). Be sure to do this outside with
no flame around..flammable and very hard on your liver. And keep it covered
at the tying bench except when using it. I've gone to mostly Deft water
soluable gloss polyurethrane as it is less toxic as a head cement. But for
some things, such as hopper legs, you can't beat the Goop II with toluene.
Joyce
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