"My recollection is that water will dissolve shellac." Not too sure about this, but if it does, it's slow. Potters use shellac to draw designs on green pots, then wash with water for relief texture.
Of course they then put em in kilns at 2200F or so.. and that works just fine to 'disolve' the shellac... (c: On Friday, March 7, 2014 11:53 AM, Randy Bennell <rbenn...@bennell.ca> wrote: My recollection is that water will dissolve shellac. Randy On 07/03/2014 8:25 AM, Rich Thomas wrote: > I am on a mini-lathe yahoo list, just happened to see this note this > morning in regard to some crazy topic: > > > If the screws were locked with shellac, alcohol is a logical > choice to dissolve the shellac - petroleum derived solvents > won't do much to loosen shellac. Standard methanol from the > paint department is the usual solvent for shellac. > > If you need a penetrant to help removing stuck screws, methyl > salicylate (synthetic oil of wintergreen) does a better job than > any of the commercial ones or the mix of ATF & acetone. It's a > bit volatile, so, you need to keep reapplying it to keep a > puddle of liquid that'll work its way along the threads. > > > Roy > > > Never heard of this methyl salicylate stuff but I bet it smells good. > > --R _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
