Please donât stick to small containers or you will never de dome properly cause it will evaporate quickly and then youâll fry the led on a steam like you did on your pictures. Use at least glass size pot and at least 300ml of thinner.
The most important thing is that it is the most perfect method for XP and XML emitters and I am pretty confident that I would de dome even that hardcore ones. If you want you can send them to me. I donât use nichia or that osram since they are not suitable for my builds.
And thinner is skin friendly. It is stuff for cleaning yourself after messing with paint. So donât worry for environment
Toluene, which seems to be a major ingredient of these thinners, are on the EPAâs hit list of 187 HAPs (hazardous air pollutants). A few of the other typical ingredients are probably on the list as well.
What we are doing have no impact compared to some big industries, but for yourself and those around you please be careful when boiling off these chemicals.
Well said DEL! I always use a gas mask when dealing with thinner or other dangerous chemicals. Thinner is a especially nasty chemical. I would never think of washing my hands in it after painting.
Itâs always wise to read the safety data sheet beforehand, so that youâre sure that you have the right protection when using it.
Guys everything is dangerous and cancerous this days⌠Even barbecue, normal cigs E cigs⌠Smokers are greater pollutants than de domers
Have you ever did coloring of metal surfaces like fences and similar stuff using regular paint brush? There is like 99% of chance that you will get dirty after that. Here in X part of the world(Balkan) people would laugh at you to see you wearing gas mask while working with paint thinner To me this is hilarious even when I imagine that
Of course you will not wash your hands with it when you cleaning yourself with it. You will put small amount of that on some cotton or small sponge and then you will dissolve dirty places on skin and then youâll wash all that with soap.
There are so many chemicals that can harm us more than mentioned thinner.
But of course⌠We all should be very careful when de doming cause Mr. Devil never sleeps.
Thatâs not how I used to do it. Oh well, safety is everything nowadays⌠Yes, I would just wash my hands with it as if it was a liquid soap. I donât paint stuff for the living, so I somehow survived the score of hand washings that I did in my life.
Yes your method is pretty common in X part of the world also cause people are not afraid of that. There are no house without paint thinner. It is in top 5 used solvents. I see you are from Poland We love your tractors Ursus 330 335 :+1:
I fill the glass to about half full, then with the lid almost closed I put it in a pot of just boiling water, wait five minutes itâs normally enough but if it need a bit more I change the water with some freshly boiled water from the kettle. When I am happy with the result I gently blow it clean with compressed air. I two LEDâs in the jar I find it works best that way.
Regarding safety : I do it outside of the house, I donât have a gas-mask but I normally make sure I have a lit cigarette in my mouth I can breath through just to filter out any fumes
âThe OSHA 8-hour time-weighted exposure limit for paint thinner (as Stoddard Solvent) is 500 parts per million (ppm). This is half the OSHA limit for exposure to acetone (nail polish remover), so paint thinners are not terribly hazardous. But, it has to be remembered that paint thinner vapors can irritate the eyes, nose and throat, in spite of their fairly pleasant odor, and can make one dizzy and/or nauseous if the vapors are inhaled in high enough levels over a long enough time period.â
So yes everybody beware when cooking with it. I also warned about that. But you would not really want to try second bolded section(inhalation of vapors)?
Edit: Put it on cooker. Stopwatch at 15minutes when it starts boiling and get out of there on beer or something When you return clog your nose and turn off cooker⌠Then go to another beer until all vapors evaporates
How to say⌠On our Balkan market thinner is as regular thing as some dish washing fluid. Even some grocery shops carry that on hardware section. You canât do anything without it (painting, cleaning, de doming )
I do not want to kill anyoneâs fun. Actually very tempted to try it myself. All I am saying is be careful and use common good sense.
The âgoodâ part of toluene is that it is smelly and most people cannot stand the smell once it gets to a dangerous concentration. It is also not a proven carcinogen and does not accumulate in the body.
Short-term exposure effects (headache, nausea, muscle spams, dizziness, etc.) will go away. Long-term exposure can, however, cause permanent damage to the nervous system and brain.
So if you guys do that in combination with beer technique or cigarette like Khas it will be a lot easier.
Only thing that worries me guys(USA and rest of the world) is what paint thinners do you have on your market⌠Maybe your are with stronger chemicals or more flammable for example?
On our market there are really some expensive paint thinners which I (and probably 80% of nation) never tried them.
So I will say if you will buying them use the universal thinner cheapest available. They should not cost more than 2-3$ per liter.
If you inhaled dish washing fluid that would probably be just as bad.
The point is that you should have decent ventilation when stuff like that is in the air.
Open a window and turn on the exhaust or something.
If I only knew that it will cause so much issues and questions I would never mentioned my nitro paint thinner method.
Members like MEM, Mitko and now Saabluster holds their small secrets for themselves and I was stupid enough to reveal mine.
Now I know there are way more clever than I am. So this will be another âschoolâ for me.
And the most interesting thing is when I already gave my detail described method that really works people tend to do it on their way anyway.
So good luck guys I am really not mad or anything but I am unsubscribing from this thread. I donât have nerves for this paint thinner discussion any more.
A tiny âpressure cookerâ would be awesome, maybe Djozz can find a tiny âautoclaafâ (iirc) on his job.
I have a metal sealable cylinder that i use for gas dedoming by the way.
I can heat it up to more that 100°C without a problem.
It doesnât seal perfectly (anymore, itâs old) but very little fumes escape and i use it in the bathing room near the air suction vent.
I would never heat up thinners without a cover in a badly ventilated room.
Problem with these chemicals (here at least) is to cut through the branding and dumbed-down marketing. Way I see it there are four main âproductsâ of interest over here:
The common âpaint thinnerâ is something called Varsol, which is an Exon-Mobile trademarked petroleum distillate. It is a mixture of C7-C12 hydrocarbons. $10 for 4 liter. Should work better than automotive gasoline? Like you, most people here have some around the house. https://www.homedepot.ca/en/home/p.paint-thinnerââ378-l.1000130966.html
Another generic product is âlacquer thinnerâ, able to dissolve plastics and resins. Sounds closest to what you are using. It used to contain toluene (and a soup of other stuff, depending on the brand name), but may not anymore due to environmental concerns. $17 for 4 liter. https://www.homedepot.ca/en/home/p.lacquer-thinnerââ378-l.1000130937.html
Heâs just trying to make a big deal about him âunsubbing from this threadâ because apparently he is upset I didnât read the last 800 posts and said the same thing about ventilation as he did before.