[Boatanchors] Looking for a small bottle of GC Electronics Strip-X

[Steve Byan's Lists]

> On Feb 18, 2016, at 9:12 AM, Steve Byan's Lists <steve-list at byan-roper.org> wrote:
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>> On Feb 17, 2016, at 6:55 PM, Doug Hensley <w5jv at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> If anyone has, and is not intending to use anymore, a small
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>> bottle of GC Electronics Strip-X enamel coating stripper, please
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>> contact me.
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>> I'm aware most people scrape but that will not work in my
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>> case.  TIA for any leads.
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> IIRC, the active ingredient in  Strip-X is methylene chloride, aka dichloromethane. This is widely used as a solvent cement for thermoplastics and as a paint stripper. Small and large quantities are readily available on eBay, for example:
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> <http://www.ebay.com/itm/Methylene-Chloride-99-95-30mL-DCM-Dichloromethane-/190785586536?hash=item2c6bb50568:g:fjUAAOSwT6pVicvi>

The MSDS for Strip-X is hard to track down since it's no longer manufactured, but this site has one:
<http://www.hazard.com/msds/f2/bfl/bfllk.html>

Strip-X is 67% methylene chloride, 17% phenol, 4% ammonia, and 20% inert thickeners.

Best regards,
-Steve

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