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 Any paint stripper which contains methylene chloride should work pretty
well. The active ingredients in GC Strip-x were methylene chloride and
phenol.



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[mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of Jack Krause
Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 1:17 PM
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: [EE:] removing varnish from magnet wire

Well shucks.  I'll have to add GC Strip-X to the list of other stuff I
can't
get anymore - Like chlordane for my termites.

I had the same thought as Dave: What about paint stripper?  So... I went
out
in the garage and tried it.  Dipped the wire end in the stripper.  Let
it
sit 15 min (less probably would have been fine, it turns out).  Wiped
off
the remover AND the varnish.  The copper looks pristine.  The stripper I
used (because it was what was sitting on the shelf) is (coincidentally)
Klean-Strip Strip-X Stripper, but it smells pretty much like the other
solvent-based strippers I've used in the past.  The main stripping
agents in
the stuff appear to be acetone and methylene chloride.

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