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Removing superglue from plastic spectacle lenses
Hi Folks,
Eldest daughter has managed to get superglue all over one lense of her glasses. (Whilst wearing them, tidying up , at least it's not in her eye) Some came off fairly easily with IPA, but still plenty on there, and tips for cleaning it off. At the moment they are soaking in some warm soapy water to hopefully soften the glue. Not the end of the world if we can't get it off, she is due an Opticians appt, and would probably get new ones then anyway, she has her old ones as spares. -- Thanks Chris French ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://usenet.sinaapp.com/ |
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On 13/11/2015 15:01, Chris French wrote:
Hi Folks, Eldest daughter has managed to get superglue all over one lense of her glasses. (Whilst wearing them, tidying up , at least it's not in her eye) Some came off fairly easily with IPA, but still plenty on there, and tips for cleaning it off. At the moment they are soaking in some warm soapy water to hopefully soften the glue. Not the end of the world if we can't get it off, she is due an Opticians appt, and would probably get new ones then anyway, she has her old ones as spares. Angle grinder ? :-) Malcolm |
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On Friday, 13 November 2015 15:00:06 UTC, Chris French wrote:
Hi Folks, Eldest daughter has managed to get superglue all over one lense of her glasses. (Whilst wearing them, tidying up , at least it's not in her eye) I've heard of an industrial solvant callbed PBC or soemthing similar, on asking about it I found that the best place to buy it was in a gay club because it can be used as a drug and quite expensive and limited to industrail use, so never managed to get any to try out. |
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On 13/11/2015 15:01, Chris French wrote:
Hi Folks, Eldest daughter has managed to get superglue all over one lense of her glasses. (Whilst wearing them, tidying up , at least it's not in her eye) Some came off fairly easily with IPA, but still plenty on there, and tips for cleaning it off. At the moment they are soaking in some warm soapy water to hopefully soften the glue. Not the end of the world if we can't get it off, she is due an Opticians appt, and would probably get new ones then anyway, she has her old ones as spares. I'm pretty sure that in casualty they just use warm water and soap (or detergent) to remove it from skin. The usual lens material is a thermosetting resin known as CR-39 and with any luck won't be "dissolved" by liquid cyanoacrylate, but I would be inclined to give it plenty of time and not too much mechanical force. |
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The company loctite used to produce an unsupergluer in a little bottle at
huge expense as i recall. It smelt foul, a bit like rotting cabbage. Brian -- From the Sofa of Brian Gaff Reply address is active Remember, if you don't like where I post or what I say, you don't have to read my posts! :-) "whisky-dave" wrote in message ... On Friday, 13 November 2015 15:00:06 UTC, Chris French wrote: Hi Folks, Eldest daughter has managed to get superglue all over one lense of her glasses. (Whilst wearing them, tidying up , at least it's not in her eye) I've heard of an industrial solvant callbed PBC or soemthing similar, on asking about it I found that the best place to buy it was in a gay club because it can be used as a drug and quite expensive and limited to industrail use, so never managed to get any to try out. |
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On 13/11/15 15:01, Chris French wrote:
Hi Folks, Eldest daughter has managed to get superglue all over one lense of her glasses. (Whilst wearing them, tidying up , at least it's not in her eye) Some came off fairly easily with IPA, but still plenty on there, and tips for cleaning it off. At the moment they are soaking in some warm soapy water to hopefully soften the glue. Only things that work are acetone and nitromethane and if its plastic lenses chances are both will dissolve those, too. Neither are easy to come by. Acetone (not MEK/dellulose thinners) is usually available f6omn specialist glass fibre suppliers. Commercial superglue debonders have that and a nitromethane gel in them Not the end of the world if we can't get it off, she is due an Opticians appt, and would probably get new ones then anyway, she has her old ones as spares. -- the biggest threat to humanity comes from socialism, which has utterly diverted our attention away from what really matters to our existential survival, to indulging in navel gazing and faux moral investigations into what the world ought to be, whilst we fail utterly to deal with what it actually is. |
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On 13/11/15 17:21, newshound wrote:
On 13/11/2015 15:01, Chris French wrote: Hi Folks, Eldest daughter has managed to get superglue all over one lense of her glasses. (Whilst wearing them, tidying up , at least it's not in her eye) Some came off fairly easily with IPA, but still plenty on there, and tips for cleaning it off. At the moment they are soaking in some warm soapy water to hopefully soften the glue. Not the end of the world if we can't get it off, she is due an Opticians appt, and would probably get new ones then anyway, she has her old ones as spares. I'm pretty sure that in casualty they just use warm water and soap (or detergent) to remove it from skin. Doesn't work. I've had more superglue on my skin and clohese than most people have had hot dinners. Nothing touches it except an angle grinder or acetone The usual lens material is a thermosetting resin known as CR-39 and with any luck won't be "dissolved" by liquid cyanoacrylate, but I would be inclined to give it plenty of time and not too much mechanical force. -- the biggest threat to humanity comes from socialism, which has utterly diverted our attention away from what really matters to our existential survival, to indulging in navel gazing and faux moral investigations into what the world ought to be, whilst we fail utterly to deal with what it actually is. |
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The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Neither are easy to come by. Acetone (not MEK/dellulose thinners) is usually available f6omn specialist glass fibre suppliers. Last time I needed some acetone I just bought nail varnish remover from Superdrug. May not be 100% pure but it dissolved whatever it was I wanted gone. But I agree it could well dissolve the lenses too. -- Robin reply to address is (meant to be) valid |
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On 14/11/15 07:43, Robin wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote: Neither are easy to come by. Acetone (not MEK/dellulose thinners) is usually available f6omn specialist glass fibre suppliers. Last time I needed some acetone I just bought nail varnish remover from Superdrug. May not be 100% pure but it dissolved whatever it was I wanted gone. But I agree it could well dissolve the lenses too. Ah yes acetone is available as nail varnish remover at the same price for 10cc that I pay for a litre.. -- the biggest threat to humanity comes from socialism, which has utterly diverted our attention away from what really matters to our existential survival, to indulging in navel gazing and faux moral investigations into what the world ought to be, whilst we fail utterly to deal with what it actually is. |
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The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Neither are easy to come by. Acetone (not MEK/dellulose thinners) is usually available f6omn specialist glass fibre suppliers. Foam-gun cleaner is usually acetone. |
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"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message ... On 14/11/15 07:43, Robin wrote: The Natural Philosopher wrote: Neither are easy to come by. Acetone (not MEK/dellulose thinners) is usually available f6omn specialist glass fibre suppliers. Last time I needed some acetone I just bought nail varnish remover from Superdrug. May not be 100% pure but it dissolved whatever it was I wanted gone. But I agree it could well dissolve the lenses too. Ah yes acetone is available as nail varnish remover at the same price for 10cc that I pay for a litre.. if you're a diy-er only doing one job, you only need 10cc tim |
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The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 14/11/15 07:43, Robin wrote: The Natural Philosopher wrote: Neither are easy to come by. Acetone (not MEK/dellulose thinners) is usually available f6omn specialist glass fibre suppliers. Last time I needed some acetone I just bought nail varnish remover from Superdrug. May not be 100% pure but it dissolved whatever it was I wanted gone. But I agree it could well dissolve the lenses too. Ah yes acetone is available as nail varnish remover at the same price for 10cc that I pay for a litre.. Your metric was "easy to come by" and I felt that for anyone dealing with superglue a bottle of nail varnish remover would do. But JOOI, Superdrug sold me 50ml for 79p; so where please do you get a litre of acetone for 16p? Or even for 79p? -- Robin reply to address is (meant to be) valid |
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On 14/11/15 12:37, Robin wrote:
But JOOI, Superdrug sold me 50ml for 79p; so where please do you get a litre of acetone for 16p? Or even for 79p? But your 50ml bottle did not contain 50ml of acetone, most of it was water. I pay about £15 for 5l of pure acetone, use it for cleaning steel prior to tig welding. |
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pcb1962 wrote:
On 14/11/15 12:37, Robin wrote: But JOOI, Superdrug sold me 50ml for 79p; so where please do you get a litre of acetone for 16p? Or even for 79p? But your 50ml bottle did not contain 50ml of acetone, most of it was water. Fair cop 'guv I pay about £15 for 5l of pure acetone, use it for cleaning steel prior to tig welding. Before going to Superdrug I tried the nearby wholesaler which supplies salons and nailbars but they couldn 't offer me anything smaller than 5l for £12+VAT -- Robin reply to address is (meant to be) valid |
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In article , The Natural Philosopher
writes On 13/11/15 15:01, Chris French wrote: Hi Folks, Eldest daughter has managed to get superglue all over one lense of her glasses. (Whilst wearing them, tidying up , at least it's not in her eye) Some came off fairly easily with IPA, but still plenty on there, and tips for cleaning it off. At the moment they are soaking in some warm soapy water to hopefully soften the glue. Only things that work are acetone and nitromethane and if its plastic lenses chances are both will dissolve those, too. Neither are easy to come by. Acetone (not MEK/dellulose thinners) is usually available f6omn specialist glass fibre suppliers. Commercial superglue debonders have that and a nitromethane gel in them Snip 'nail varnish remover' from the chemists shop is usually acetone with a bit of castor oil added nitromethane may be available from firms who sell model aircraft fuel -- Chris Holford |
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In message , Chris Holford
writes In article , The Natural Philosopher writes On 13/11/15 15:01, Chris French wrote: Hi Folks, Eldest daughter has managed to get superglue all over one lense of her glasses. (Whilst wearing them, tidying up , at least it's not in her eye) Some came off fairly easily with IPA, but still plenty on there, and tips for cleaning it off. At the moment they are soaking in some warm soapy water to hopefully soften the glue. Only things that work are acetone and nitromethane and if its plastic lenses chances are both will dissolve those, too. Neither are easy to come by. Acetone (not MEK/dellulose thinners) is usually available f6omn specialist glass fibre suppliers. Commercial superglue debonders have that and a nitromethane gel in them Snip 'nail varnish remover' from the chemists shop is usually acetone with a bit of castor oil added nitromethane may be available from firms who sell model aircraft fuel I've not found it hard to buy acetone/. IIRC, our village chemists sells small bottles of neat acetone, as well as nail varnish remover. Anyway, soaking in warm soapy water a lot, and cleaning what I could off removed enough so that the glasses were wearable, if rather annoying. I was in Toolstation today, and so bought a bottle of superglue debonder, and will see how that goes -- Chris French |
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In message , tim.....
writes "The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message ... On 14/11/15 07:43, Robin wrote: The Natural Philosopher wrote: Neither are easy to come by. Acetone (not MEK/dellulose thinners) is usually available f6omn specialist glass fibre suppliers. Last time I needed some acetone I just bought nail varnish remover from Superdrug. May not be 100% pure but it dissolved whatever it was I wanted gone. But I agree it could well dissolve the lenses too. Ah yes acetone is available as nail varnish remover at the same price for 10cc that I pay for a litre.. if you're a diy-er only doing one job, you only need 10cc Yup, and that would be very expensive nail varnish remover. -- Chris French |
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On Sat, 14 Nov 2015 07:43:07 -0000, Robin wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote: Neither are easy to come by. Acetone (not MEK/dellulose thinners) is usually available f6omn specialist glass fibre suppliers. Last time I needed some acetone I just bought nail varnish remover from Superdrug. May not be 100% pure but it dissolved whatever it was I wanted gone. But I agree it could well dissolve the lenses too. My neighbour was, for some reason, throwing out nail varnish remover, so of course I took it in case it came in useful. It has some sort of 'conditioner' in it, so for some uses it would need cleaning off; for other purposes it might be useless. -- Peter. The gods will stay away whilst religions hold sway |
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