>....... There's a solvent with a 3 letter acronym beginning with 'M' >that will clean the area to be glued without melting the boat. Can't >remember the other 2 letters, but it was recommened by Dagger and I >bought it at Home Depot. Might be worthwhile to check with your >boat's mfgr just to be safe. Be VERY careful with this stuff. That's MEK for Methyl Ethyl Ketone. Always use this in well ventilated areas, preferably outdoors and upwind of it. It will melt ABS, and I've seen situations where someone cleaned an area with MEK, slapped on the D ring patch and a week later had the outer hull begin to melt because some of the mek had absorbed into the abs and had nowhere to evaporate to... *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Jul 08 1999 - 19:00:33 PDT
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