MEK - Suggestions welcome

[8Ace]

I have run out of MEK and as I no longer work in a chemistry lab, I have no idea where to get it from. Does anyone know where I can procure a bottle please? 250ml or so will be all I need and last me for ages.

Thanks in advance

[HundredthIdiot]

Not had much exposure to this, but it looks fairly 'armless.

[OllieWinchester]

Is this some sort of drug, DMT style?

[Yertis]

It's a solvent for polystyrene, try a model shop.

[shirt]

have you tried a decent paint supply shop?

my dad usually has some knocking around the garage, pretty potent stuff as i recall! i don't know where he gets it from but can ask if you're stuck. he works in the glass industry so prob. try a friendly glazier???

[8Ace]

Model shop and Paint supply seems to be worth a try - thanks fellas.

[Adrian W]

Do printers still use it,

[OllieWinchester]

What are you using it for?

[8Ace]

OllieWinchester said:

What are you using it for?

Archery. It's the best stuff I've found for cleaning fletching glue off the arrows. You need to be in a well ventilated room though as the walls start talking to you after a bit. Which can be fun.

[anonymous-user]

I'm led to believe that you can't get MEK anymore, but you can get somthing like it - very good stuff, probably rotting me from the lungs outwards mind....

[Yugguy]

8Ace said:

cleaning felching glue off the arrows.

[OllieWinchester]

Sounds like good stuff, might have to track some down....

[8Ace]

Yugguy said:

8Ace said:

cleaning felching glue off the arrows.

should have known better than to use the f-word.

[Smart roadster]

It is used as a cleaner for glueing ABS and PVC pipe so I would try pipe center or the like. If it is not MEK any more it is very similar

[Turbo5]

We use it in the aerospace industry, for preparing surfaces before treatments, bonding etc, I know it as been banned along with tricoethylene on the shop floor and can only be used in closed cabins with air fed masks for the users, we now use something called PF solvent now.
safety data sheet here
http://www.scorecard.org/chemical-profiles/summary...

[Morningside]

Looks nasty.
But after chatting to a professional model maker use Chloroform to 'glue' acrylic sheeting.

[Zulu 10]

I've previously purchased MEK from Performance Chemicals Ltd (www.performance-chemicals.net or 08707 700530) who were quite happy to sell to an individual (rather than a company). Was forced to buy after the local hangar staff were banned from using it, so I could no longer beg an occasional tin.

The cost was about £2 for a 250ml tin, but the P&P was about £20 due to the nature of the liquid. Consequently I opted for a 'lifetime buy' of 20 tins.

I can't see MEK on their product listing, but they still list triclorethane (sp?) so there's clearly still a market for that type of solvent.

Hope that helps.

[eccles]

We still use it by the tin in work (MOD Aerospace), I'd gladly cadge you a tin, but I don't know how you'd get hold of it unless you fancy popping over to east anglia.

[Pigeon]

If it's for cleaning fletching glue off arrows I'd have thought acetone would be an acceptable substitute. Arrows are made of wood or possibly metal, right?