Topic: Acetone question
So do you need special stuff or will your basic nail polish remover do the trick when you're cleaning the bed?
Re: Acetone question
You should get 100% acetone, most nail polish removers have additional chemicals that may damage the kapton's ability to stick. Read the ingredients label before you buy, a lot of the time "100% acetone" is mixed with denatoium benzoate, that wont affect the kapton (from experience).
3 2014-07-07 12:45:51 (edited by LdyMox 2014-07-07 12:47:00)
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Re: Acetone question
I have had good sucessess with Rust-Oleum Automotive Acetone ...when I was trying the nail polish kind it did nothing. But this was for the acetone smoothing process.
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Solidoodle 2
E3Dv6 Hotend, MK5 v6 version, Glass Bed, Anti Z backlash slop nut, SureStepr SD8825 1/32 Extruder Driver, makeshift breakaway plexiglass case; . L-Cheapo 3.8 Watt Laser Attachment w/Custom built enclosure
From Buffalo, NY, USA
Re: Acetone question
Go to your local hardware store. They should be able to sell you acetone in a couple of different sizes. I tend to get the gallon size. Here in Carolina it runs about $8.00 a gallon.
5 2014-07-07 23:56:47 (edited by adrian 2014-07-07 23:57:33)
Re: Acetone question
michael.t.albers wrote:
Go to your local hardware store. They should be able to sell you acetone in a couple of different sizes. I tend to get the gallon size. Here in Carolina it runs about $8.00 a gallon.
Is that a US. Gallon (4.54L) , Imperial Gallon (3.79L) , or a Dry Gallon (4.4L) ?? 
Hehehe 
Rib poking over quaint units of measurement aside - As per Micheal and others' advice... Just go to the hardware for the best value to volume deal.... and you are (mostly) assured its unadulterated acetone...
Re: Acetone question
It is exactly 0001.00 gallons. None of those imprecise metric volume measurements here.
Re: Acetone question
IanJohnson wrote:
It is exactly 0001.00 gallons. None of those imprecise metric volume measurements here.
Oh yes, I forgot about the all important additional precision
Re: Acetone question
Dude, college drop out here. All I know is the can, it says, 1 gallon