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chewing gum remover

chewing gum remover

chewing gum remover

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Dear Everbody ,

We would like to solve gum in factory boiler. Factory produce gum , after production a lot of gum and gum ferment is here . How do we remove this churn with chemicals ?  What is the based on chemicals "solvent or exc"

KErem

RE: chewing gum remover

Never tried the peanut butter. Maybe it's the peanut oil?

Dissolving gum can take time and leave you with a lot of liquid waste. Plus, you have to keep buying solvent.

Depending on the composition of the gum and the shape of the boiler, cooling it might help. Cooling hardens the gum. If it shrinks on cooling, it might pull away from the walls. Even if cooling doesn't separate it from the walls, maybe you could chip it out.

Get a sample of gum from a boiler and try cooling it in a lab to see if it might work.

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