Use straight Toluene. Dome comes off in about five minutes in finger warm liquid. Canned air is good to remove silicone leftover. Be careful to heat it though. Tried two times in boiling water and the LED came of with the dome. Also the tint is fantastic!
Left: Sst-40 dedomed in hot nitro thinner.
Right: Sst-40 dedomed in finger warm Toluene.
^ Is this the first direct proof that a different dedome method results in different tint? Or is there more than just the dedome method different in the above pictures?
I can’t be 100% sure at this point, but they came from the same reel. In the next two days I’ll try the same thing with another SST-40, XP-L, and XP-G2.
Edit: I’m sure that there’s other members who have found other ways to eliminate the green shit. But I get the feeling that they are very reluctant to share their methods…
Oooh - KB, you beat me to it, but that was a help . I got an unused can of MEK sit'n around. Keep us posted - it's expensive though but interested to see if it works.
Your picture of the nitro thinner dedomed SST-40 next to the toluene dedomed SST-40 shows exactly why we should use toluene.
The greenish tint is all to familiar to chemical dedomers, we all want the other result (right one in the picture).
Also, the fact that a tough dome like SST-40 is gone after a short while, and without heating the solvent, is another reason to get pure toluene.