Hi Joe:
Yeah, I remember 1,1,1
Trichloroethane. Great stuff, and would cut through just about
anything. Also would dry the skin right off your hands and arms in no
time flat not to mention your forehead from wiping the sweat from your
brow. After OSHA stepped in, we had to switch to Naphtha. Not
nearly as good, but you could keep your zippo full at all times for
free.
Anyway yeah, if you can get some trichloroethane go for
it! I don't see any problems for just one job. I was elbow deep
in the stuff 8-hours a day for around 4-years. I got some scars, but
no cancer yet (knock on wood).
BigDave
My all time favorite solvent has to be
trichloroethane. I just went looking for some recently, without success.
Banned as an ozone eater. I can suggest a few readily
available noxious chemicals that you might try. Kerosene is fairly
cheap, fairly benign, and fairly slippery. Turpetine is a
non-liver-eating replacement for turpentine. If your glue is an old
pine tar material, turpetine may cut it. Denatured alcohol may work
better than isopropyl, but it still evaporates too quickly for my taste.
Mineral spirits (paint thinner) might be worth a try. Paint stripper can
work miracles, but OSHA and the ozone hole have taken some of the fun
out of that, too. Do you have a big fan, and somebody to spot
you?
Joe
(Sorry, I've been off line for some
months due to technical difficulties. Well, okay, computer incompetence
and laziness.)
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001
6:17 PM
Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Phone
# for Mine sweeper hulls
A chap
"down under" wanted the phone # for the place that sells
the mine
sweepers. It is Lague Sales, Robert Lague
209-825-2582. I think he
wants $250
each. If you work out a deal with him to ship one to you, I'd
be
glad to go and pick out one for you. (Just to make sure
you get the best of
the pile). Some of them have some
pretty deep marring where they were
dragged on the sand.
I'd look for one with no damage.
I cut one in half the
other day and took out the foam blocks. They weigh 600
lbs, total, without the foam. Did the math calcs to
estimate how much it
would displace. Figured to be 4400
lbs on paper. After I cut it at
"station
10", I stood each half on a large scale and filled them with
water.
The front 10ft. weighed in at 3200 lbs and the
tail (8'10") weighed 1100 full
of water. Total weight
= 4300 lbs. The first 14" of the nose is sealed
from the rest and did not fill with water. I don't know if
it is full of
foam or just empty. There is a 4 inch steel
tube across the inside at
station 6. There is a glue
substance (very sticky yet after 50 years) on
parts of the
inside, apparently to hold the foam in place during assembly.
Tested acetone, alcohol, gasoline, detergent, and tolulene.
Only tolulene
will cut the glue and then only with
scrubbing. Heat softens it so I used a
heated pressure
washer to get alot of it out but that was a VERY slow and hot
process. I'm not willing to climb inside with
a gallon of tolulene and
start scrubbing away.
Any
suggestions?
Gene