POTD- PROJECT OF THE DAY: What Did You Make In Your Shop Today?

[wachuko]

I just gotta know, what is the vapor solvent, and what are the polymer chemicals identified as?

Pretty sure it is some nasty stuff... I believe it is Methylene Chloride...

 

[dkemppai]

Pretty sure it is some nasty stuff... I believe it is Methylene Chloride...

As long as it's not the same stuff that's in aluminum brighteners...
https://www.shophighlinewarren.com/p/SPRLJ701
https://www.shophighlinewarren.com/images/ProductSDSDocuments/SPRLJ701.pdf
(I won't let any of that stuff on my property. Period. Never.)

 

[ChazzC]

Says for leather on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Leather-Cutting-Punching-Deform-Prevention/dp/B0B62YCRLV/ref=sr_1_9?crid=2OLBD98ZLKFBQ&keywords=circular+gasket+cutter&qid=1694669554&sprefix=circular+gasket+cutters,aps,165&sr=8-9 but I think I may have got them on e-bay. Used a piece of hardwood on top of them, and one under the gasket material with a heavy hammer for the whack a dudeling. Mike

Cheap version of steel-rule “Clicker Press” dies. Good ones come mounted in a wooden block that helps keep them on-size & round. Expensive Clicker Dies are made from high carbon steel bars that have a steep triangular cross section; these are the ones typically used for cutting out shoe/boot pieces as well as smaller complex shapes in fabric (bra cups, as an example).

 

[GoceKU]

I just gotta know, what is the vapor solvent, and what are the polymer chemicals identified as?

As far as i had a friend who's a chemist explain it to me the blue liquid is almost all acetone, very similar to the one used by the ladies to take off nail lacquer but the blue one has lots of UV protectives.

 

[GoceKU]

This is the video i found and got the inspiration to search and buy this kit

 

[mattthemuppet2]

I just gotta know, what is the vapor solvent, and what are the polymer chemicals identified as?

I think it's dihydromagico-6-fantasticol

 

[woodchucker]

I think it just gently remelts the plastic, and allows it to reflow, removing the scratches.

 

[pontiac428]

As a product available in the EU, acetone makes the most sense. It seems like a safe enough way to do it considering the hazards using hot acetone entails. I'd certainly give it a shot. Frosty headlights on your baby can be a real tear jerker.

 

[wayback machine]

$30.90 kit from Amazon - Even comes in a nice little case :

https://www.amazon.com/Headlight-Restoration-Atomizing-Renovation-Headlights/dp/B0BBG2R315

 

[mmcmdl]

Making some room at the inn today . Picking up all my boxes from work this afternoon and they have to fit somewhere .