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Monday, May 02, 2005

Ever tried cleaning your Brakes with Adhesives?

Well now you can!!! I was searching for useless crap today and noticed the following, Chemical Name: Tetrachloroethylene CAS Registry Number: 000127-18-4 Can be found in: Aleenes Platinum Bond 7800 Adhesive liquid 70.00% ARAMCO Art and Crafts Goop, FP Goop liquid "Info Hidden" Aleenes Bond Patio & Garden Adhesive liquid 70.00% Aleenes Super Fabric Textile Adhesive liquid 70.00% If you call in the next 10 minutes, you get: Gumout Prof. Brake Parts Cleaner aerosol 50-90% Liquid Wrench Lubricant with Teflon aerosol 65-80% Lectra Motive Engine Degreaser aerosol 70-100% ProsALL No flame Penetrating Oil aerosol 60 - 65%

posted by The_Great_DL @ 10:43 AM

2 Comments:

At 10:04 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

perchlorethylene is the solvent in the listed adhesives. it is a relatively slowly evaporating solvent

 
At 1:32 PM, Blogger The_Great_DL said...

Hey thanks for bringing that to my attention. I fogot to mention that the chemical has a few synonyms as I will list below:

Tetrachloroethylene CAS 127-18-4
Cl2C=CCl2 RTECS KX3850000
Synonyms & Trade Names
Perchlorethylene, Perchloroethylene, Perk, Tetrachlorethylene.

-dl

 

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