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-----Need chemical solvents for cleaning stainless
Need chemical solvents for cleaning stainless that can used without going thru the following procedures.
The stainless steel was received with a PE film.
This film was peeled off by hand. The sample was then ultra-sonicated in the following for 5 minutes each: THF, chloroform, acetone, and isopropanol.
The sample was then prepared for analysis and Auger found the following: S, Cl, K, Ca, C, Fe, Ni, Fe, O, Na. We also tried an additional step of polishing the surface with 0.05 µm Al2O3 polish. This reduce the Auger analysis results to: C, O, Fe, Cr, Ni.
Michael Liu Taylor
specialty stainless steel distributor - Dallas, Texas
1998
1998
It's possible, isn't it, that cleaning with just one of those four solvents might have removed the contaminants? I'd probably try the isopropyl alcohol ⇦ on eBay or Amazon [affil link] first; and if that didn't work, then mineral spirits ⇦ on eBay or Amazon [affil link] ; and if that didn't work, then the acetone ⇦ on eBay or Amazon [affil link] Flammable! .
But most adhesives have some solvent basis; if you find what it is, that solvent alone will probably be just as effective as that solvent plus three others, and a lot more effective than the other three without the right one :-)
Ted Mooney, P.E.
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Please give me info about chemical polished of stainless steel.
Thank you very much!
Piere, DunhamHunan University - Changsha, Hunan Province, China
2001
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