<![CDATA[SoliForum - 3D Printing Community — What dissolves PETG?]]> https://www.soliforum.com/topic/13523/what-dissolves-petg/ Sun, 31 Jul 2016 01:15:30 +0000 PunBB <![CDATA[Re: What dissolves PETG?]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/125653/#p125653 Phenol is Poissonous and as an chemist I hate working with the stuff. Maybe gasoline might work. Its chalk full of hydrocarbons that might do the job.

]]> Sun, 31 Jul 2016 01:15:30 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/125653/#p125653 <![CDATA[Re: What dissolves PETG?]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/123264/#p123264 Heartlander wrote:

I wonder wht brake cleaner would do? THat's some pretty strong solvent. So is carburetor cleaner. The idea would be to find  solvent that could be used to make PET cement.

I am just wondering what you need "PET cement" for?

need to glue PETG pieces together? try CA glue (super glue) - the gel type works quite well.

Bed adhesion? you shouldn't need anything special - just like PLA, it should stick to bare glass fine, or glass & hairspray...
or, if you have already spent the money, one of those fancy build plate things...

]]> Mon, 23 May 2016 13:06:00 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/123264/#p123264 <![CDATA[Re: What dissolves PETG?]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/123259/#p123259 Most of the chemicals that will dissolve PETG or PLA should not be used at home or even in a shop unless you have a hood to work under and no sources of ignition for the vapors that can travel very far. They are also not consider safe to even get a small wiff of so a respirator is advised as well.

]]> Mon, 23 May 2016 12:22:59 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/123259/#p123259 <![CDATA[Re: What dissolves PETG?]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/123253/#p123253 DCM works on PETG. just happens to work excellent on PLA as well.

]]> Mon, 23 May 2016 09:50:39 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/123253/#p123253 <![CDATA[Re: What dissolves PETG?]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/118396/#p118396 Heartlander wrote:

Tim, you're a wellspring of valuable information. I see that Pure Acetone will supposedly dissolve, or ta least damage, it.

Thanks! I'm loving this E3D Lite, btw.

tried acetone on PETG, no effect.

]]> Tue, 01 Mar 2016 06:56:35 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/118396/#p118396 <![CDATA[Re: What dissolves PETG?]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/118293/#p118293 here's another reference:

http://solutions-in-plastics.info/nl-be … stance.pdf

]]> Mon, 29 Feb 2016 05:16:41 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/118293/#p118293 <![CDATA[Re: What dissolves PETG?]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/115499/#p115499 Tim, you're a wellspring of valuable information. I see that Pure Acetone will supposedly dissolve, or ta least damage, it.

Thanks! I'm loving this E3D Lite, btw.

]]> Mon, 01 Feb 2016 16:38:12 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/115499/#p115499 <![CDATA[Re: What dissolves PETG?]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/115351/#p115351 http://sevierlab.vet.cornell.edu/resour … Detail.pdf

You're looking for all the "N"s in the PETG column. Some will dissolve better than others, but if it is rated E, F, or G, then it won't dissolve PETG.

]]> Sat, 30 Jan 2016 16:06:13 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/115351/#p115351 <![CDATA[Re: What dissolves PETG?]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/115350/#p115350 I wonder wht brake cleaner would do? THat's some pretty strong solvent. So is carburetor cleaner. The idea would be to find  solvent that could be used to make PET cement.

]]> Sat, 30 Jan 2016 15:55:18 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/115350/#p115350 <![CDATA[Re: What dissolves PETG?]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/115102/#p115102 Yeh, that's what I was gettin ready to say.


smile

Thanks.

]]> Tue, 26 Jan 2016 20:45:17 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/115102/#p115102 <![CDATA[Re: What dissolves PETG?]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/115092/#p115092 A phenol group is just a benzene ring with an OH (Hydroxyl group on it). There are a lot of chemical compounds that contain a phenol group.  Carbolic acid can be purchased online but I bet it will attack more the just PETG. Doing a bit of quick googling shows that aromatic hydrocarbons will dissolve PETG. Aromatic compounds just mean it contains a benzene ring. Toluene might do it but without trying it I can't recommend anything and cannot advise you to try it.

Edit: It has been several years since organic chem so I am a bit rusty on some of this stuff.

]]> Tue, 26 Jan 2016 20:38:12 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/115092/#p115092 <![CDATA[Re: What dissolves PETG?]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/115089/#p115089 elmoret wrote:

http://www.northerntool.com/images/product/2000x2000/m03/m0313_2000x2000.jpg

My favorite answer of the day big_smile

]]> Tue, 26 Jan 2016 20:11:27 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/115089/#p115089 <![CDATA[Re: What dissolves PETG?]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/115083/#p115083 No cement either? Anybody know where to get water tight (closed end) plastic pop rivets? I see plastic rivet and I see water tight rivets, but not the combination.

]]> Tue, 26 Jan 2016 18:39:44 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/115083/#p115083 <![CDATA[Re: What dissolves PETG?]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/115081/#p115081 http://www.northerntool.com/images/product/2000x2000/m03/m0313_2000x2000.jpg

]]> Tue, 26 Jan 2016 18:36:16 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/115081/#p115081 <![CDATA[Re: What dissolves PETG?]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/115079/#p115079 Heartlander wrote:

Acetone doesn't. I read that phenol does but I don't know which phenol (there re many variants). Any short answers here? Hoping for something I can buy locally.

Your out of luck. The only things that can do require expensive multiple processes or a license and special equipment to handle.

]]> Tue, 26 Jan 2016 18:33:37 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/115079/#p115079