[Milsurplus] [ARC5] MFP - how to remove?

[Peter Gottlieb]

Maybe MEK (2-butanone).  Not the new fake "MEK substitute," you need the real 
stuff.  You might find some old stock somewhere.  It's pretty hazardous so if 
you do find some use it outside and try not to breathe too much of it.  It can 
be found on ebay but can be expensive. Be careful it does dissolve and/or damage 
many plastics and paints.


On 9/25/2016 12:09 AM, WA5CAB--- via Milsurplus wrote:
> Ken,
>
> There is or was a solvent for MFP.  But I've never had any of it.  So I don't 
> know how the MFP reacted to it.  The only source I was able to find only took 
> orders in 55 gallon lots. And it didn't mention whether using the stuff was 
> hazerdous or not.
>
> Although late war and later TM 11's often have a warning about removing it 
> from terminals before attempting to repair (solder to) equipment, they don't 
> say how to do it.  The only way I've ever done it was mechanically.  Which 
> wouldn't produce very good results on sheet metal.
>
> Robert Downs - Houston
> wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
> MVPA 9480
>
> In a message dated 09/24/2016 19:29:33 PM Central Daylight Time, 
> kgordon2006 at frontier.com writes:
>> I have a BC-454 here which someone back in about 1950 tried to convert to 
>> cover 10 meters. After a long discussion on the ARC-5 forum, I managed to get 
>> it to work very well.
>>
>>
>> But the MFP all over the case looks awful. I managed to get most of it off 
>> the cover, and polished that up with Mother's Mag and Aluminum Polish, but 
>> the rest of it resisted everything I tried to remove it. Acetone didn't work. 
>> A stainless steel brush and my Dremel takes off some of the surface, but not 
>> all of it.
>>
>>
>> So, how do I get all of it off and get down to bare aluminum?
>>
>>
>> Gee...
>>
>>
>> Ken W7EKB
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