Tried some, bonds styrene just like MEK
Harold
OK, so what is it?
MIK, placement, war bonds, just like MLK.
Ole Harold here, must be a “man of few words”.
It is a substitute for Methyl ethyl ketone(MEK), the best agent for bonding styrene.
MEK is being phased out.
Harold
OK, we know it’s a MEK substitute. What’s the name of it.
That is the name of the product
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Klean-Strip-1-qt-M-E-K-Substitute-QME71SUB/202994064#.UkHM0FP7haQ
Harold
Thanks. Kleen Strip. Now I know what to ask for. Auto parts clerks in this part of the country get a real comical dumb look if you ask for something like MEK Substitute. ‘Duh! What? We don’t be carrying MEK no more’ even if it’s right on the label.
I picked up a product from a plastics supplier called Methylene Chloride, which they sell for bonding plastics.
I bought a litre can for less than a couple of bottles of Tenax would cost.
I was taking, about a 2 hour nap,for I get up really early,so I sit at my desk now,log back on to the Forums and the first thing,I read is this…I think I will go back and take another nap and see in my dream’s,if I missed,something? For surely it appears,that I did…[%-)] [%-)]
Cheers, [D] [I]
Frank
Isn’t MEK what doctorwayne uses as a glue substitute when he builds his structures?
I think he buys it by the gallon.
Rich
MEK was the original bonding agent set forth in Al Armitage’s “Case for Styrene” back in Oct-Nov 1959 Model Railroader. Back then Duco and model airplane glue were state of the art.
Harold
Rich,
I could be wrong,but I thought,it was Lacquer thinner,but what do I know,no badges,sniff,no post count,sniff sniff…[:'(]
Cheers,
Frank [(-D]
Yes, Doc Wayne uses lacquer thinner.
Harold,
In that time period and before,you could use Ambroid wood glue and Dope for painting…You could really get Dopey,using that stuff…[:P]
Cheers,
Frank
Let’s not even discuss the carbon tetrachloride you were advised to clean your tools with, or the shredded asbestos that made the most excellent scenery material … Folks lament that there are not enough youth in the hobby but the wonder of it is that there are geezers!
Dave Nelson
[bow]
Frank may be an old geezer, but you ought not to call him that. [(-D]
Rich
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My Dad used to refill my Testors liquid bottles with MEK, and I used to have a spray booth (really a cardboard box) Right next to the oil burning furnace down the basement! It’s amazing somehow that I made it past puberty with brain cells intact!
Actually almost all the products I use today should be appended with ’ - Subistute’
There was a big scare that our favorite Lacquer thinner; DuPont 3608s was downgraded & much slower acting one, in the early 2k’s…
I can’t get the Catalyst for my favorite HoC Clear, or that Clear formula for that matter, anymore.
On & on, & on…
I do spray, still today, near my NG fired furnace, without issues.
-or- Perhaps this is the… Chad - Subsistute …typing… Hmmmmm…
Chad, get it right. The word is Substitute. [8o|]
[(-D]
Rich