91% isopropyl alcohol available from any drug store dissolves the green
ProtoBuild material.
Bioact VS-O at 62 degrees Centigrade dissolves (sloughs-off) the red
ProtoSupport material.
Best Regards, Tom Richards, Metallurgist
At 08:34 AM 11/8/00 +0100, you wrote:
>HI:
>
>" A slightly strange request. I am looking for solvents for the
> protobuild wax (green) in the Sanders machine. It has been
> suggested to use water in an ultrasonic bath, this works but is
> incredibly slow. Has anyone had any experience in doing this
> and could give any suggestions for good solvents?
>"
>
> We try to use the ultrasonic with water, with solvents, at low
> temperature
>and at higth temperature, if you want to decrees the time increese the
>temperature of the ultrasonic water we had take out some parts in "seconds"
>BUT the finish surface is bad, you are going to find some holes in it. I
>think the ultrasonic is to much strong for the internal structure.
>
> I don't konw what are your parts for but ours are for jewelery
> and we need
>good surfaces so we prefer the VSO solvent, some presure air and long time
>with low temps.
>
> If you need another solvent ask to your company quimic man or
> some one in
>your... I'm loosing my english, people around you. It's becouse in every
>country you can find some diferent solvents or the same with diferent names.
>These VSO is very common but much of the equivalent ones are not legal in
>some countryes.
>
> Rgds.
>
> Víctor
>
>
>
>For more information about the rp-ml, see http://ltk.hut.fi/rp-ml/
For more information about the rp-ml, see http://ltk.hut.fi/rp-ml/
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