On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 07:58:36 -0500, you wrote:

>At 10:06 PM 2/27/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>>"M. Adam Davis" wrote:
>> >
>> > Or a cheap solvent.
>>
>>CHEAP?
>>OK what cheap solvent dissolves potting epoxy? I'd love to know.
>>Even the vicious stuff I've tried goes nowhere (fuming nitric acid
>>for instance).
>
>I've heard claims that paint stripper (n-methyl-2-pyrrolidone  type)
>works. I think they use a cocktail of fuming nitric and another acid
>commercially (hot and sprayed under pressure). None of this is stuff
>I'd want around. The lab supply houses charge a lot of money, the
>storage and disposal costs are high.

Nitro-Mors paintstripper (dichloromethane and methanol) will soften and =
swell epoxy - can take a day
or two but will do the job.=20

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