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Re: nothing with acetone
By:Nolan Penney
Date: 10/29/1998, 2:29 pm
In Response To: Re: nothing with acetone (Brian C.)

> You sure on that?

Yea, I'm sure. Went and read a couple of msds to double check before I posted. Just glycerine. Some contain different types of glycerines and different ratios, but none contain acetone.

> Because it sure did eat a hole through the car fast enough!

That really depends, and I don't know what on. I've had it go through paint in a split second, as in on the front of my car that had been repainted. And I've had it take many many years to even start damaging paint, such as on my big motorcycles gas tank.

> I thought the government made the put it in, make anyone stupid enough to
> drink it cough it up.

You won't inherently cough up acetone. Kids poison themselves with it quite easily, and probably regularly. The government does require various additives for safety, such as one of the rubbing alcohols, scents in natural gas and such. But I know of nothing in brake fluid like this and it doesn't show up in the msds for the ones I looked at.

Fwiw, I'm not sure acetone will eat through cured epoxy. In fact, I rather doubt it. I've had brushes filled with epoxy that I had plunked in cups of acetone set up and cure completely. Granted, it took quite a while, but they did cure.

Messages In This Thread

How to get padding off?
David Walker -- 10/27/1998, 9:31 pm
Re: How to get padding off?
Nick Schade -- 10/28/1998, 5:25 pm
Re: How to get padding off?
Don Varnau -- 10/28/1998, 9:03 am
nothing with acetone
Brian C. -- 10/29/1998, 12:52 am
Re: nothing with acetone
Nolan Penney -- 10/29/1998, 8:37 am
Re: nothing with acetone
Brian C. -- 10/30/1998, 12:55 am
Re: nothing with acetone
Nolan Penney -- 10/29/1998, 2:29 pm
Re: Additives
Mark Kanzler -- 10/29/1998, 5:46 pm
Re: Additives
Nolan Penney -- 10/30/1998, 6:45 am
Re: Additives
Mark Kanzler -- 10/30/1998, 2:08 pm
the carbon was prepreg
Brian C. -- 10/29/1998, 4:32 pm
Re: the carbon was prepreg
Nolan Penney -- 10/30/1998, 6:48 am
them's the brakes
Brian C. -- 10/31/1998, 12:11 am
Re: the carbon was prepreg
David Dick -- 10/29/1998, 8:10 pm
Re: nothing with acetone
Mark Kanzler -- 10/29/1998, 1:00 pm
Re: good point
Don Varnau -- 10/28/1998, 2:23 pm