Latex gloves don’t melt with acetone. I use them with working with it. For coins I just use my fingers though. I use acetone usually for removal of finish paint and glue
Sharing is caring... I thought acetone melted all rubber based products. I had to dive deeper... Most gloves used with liquid solvents have a permeation factor, which means the solvent slowly seeps through the glove to your skin. While the glove may initially protect you, it won't offer good protection with increased exposure to a solvent like acetone. Nitrile, an organic compound, is a fairly common glove material because it does not produce the same allergic response. With a four-minute breakthrough when used with acetone, it is not as safe an option as gloves made from butyl rubber. While neoprene demonstrates some resistance to acetone, it is not as good as either butyl or latex.
AFAIK the stripper (which I have used) also contained methanol and sodium hydroxide and perhaps ethyl cellosolve. Yum!
Close, the HCl comes from the decomposition of the PVC, but the plasticizer acts as a solvent to hold it close to the coin.
The stuff I have used, you paint it on and wait...the paint bubbles up and you can wipe it off with a cloth!
Reminds me of the time (in the last 10 years or so) that I was shopping at our OLD OLD downtown hardware store, digging around at the back of a shelf, and found a can of honest-to-goodness asbestos furnace cement. I bought it for a friend who drives a restored Stanley Steamer.
Good stuff. I believe they still use asbestos in commercial brake pads or at least they did for a long time after the hazards were acknowledged.
Yep. I like chloroform actually better. Just handle with care. Anything you buy from Home Depot is not pure enough.
What he (actually they) said. You don't want something like nail polish remover that has additives, but you don't need spectroscopy-grade reagent acetone, either. A can from the hardware store should be just fine.
Yeah, their 100% claim is of course bogus, but the main contaminant is water in most brands of acetone (except fingernail polish remover)
Generally, the stuff you buy at the hardware store was made the same way the lab grade reagents are made. Usually, the only difference is to what degree it is handled and tested after it was manufactured. More often than not, most unopened solvents from the hardware store would pass most - if not all - ACS/Reagent grade specs. So, if you’re conserving some nicer stuff from your LCS’ coin bowl, the hardware store juice will suffice. If you’re working with a better coin, send it to a TPG for conservation. If you still want to try to conserve a higher-end coin yourself, pay the extra money for at least a food/pharma grade (FCC, USP or NF) or even the ACS/Reagent grade.
