Removing Epoxy
Removing Epoxy
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What are the best ways to remove hardened epoxy from metal parts? We have hundreds of small metal parts that have two halves epoxied together. We need to take them apart. We do not want to destroy them because we eventually will have to epoxy them back together again. I do not know what the metal is. Is there a solvent that would work?





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Timelord
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We operate 9 of these cleaning ovens/furnaces cleaning all sort of polymers and paints with the exception of chlorinated materials.
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Both chemicals are suspected carcinogens. I was told by the plant chemist to make sure the two chemicals did not come into contact or bad things would result. It's a long time ago and I don't recall what 'bad things' entailed.
You might get a better answer in forum135: Chemical engineering other topics.
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Just remember that you can do one part in larger oven while the smaller one maybe limiting.
I would also check around as there are quite a number of these ovens in service and being inexpensive to operate the charge for
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If the geometry of these metal parts has resulted in a thin glue line and a relatively large adhesion area then the thermal methods may be more effective than solvent due to the small available area for the solvent to attack. Epoxy tends to char rather than melt. If you can afford to trade time against temperature then 300°C may be high enough to break down the epoxy.
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