[TheForge] Re: Cleaner for mild steel

Dave Brown [email protected]
Tue Jun 3 21:36:00 2003


At 20:11 06/03/03 -0400, you wrote:
>To all,
>
>Thanks for the responses.  I didn't think of lacquer thinner which I have 
>at the shop.  Gonna buy some cleaner types that were mentioned.  I never 
>heard of MEK.  Industrial Cleaner?

Solvent.  Methyl Ethyl Ketone (or something very close to that).  Also used 
to be used to decaffeinated coffee beans, and still used by some smaller 
coffee producers). ... Oh, yeah, I forgot one of it's main uses ... paint 
remover.

Dave Brown

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