I have had it happen in less than 30 minutes, if you give it a head start by making a bunch of tiny little cuts with a razor, just enough to break the surface. You can nearly watch in real time as it swells up along the cut lines and starts to break apart.
I didn't do anything to it except put it in the gas. I thought it would take hours and actually, I wasn't watching it, so it could have happened in a few minutes, I just happened to check after an hour and a half. I was just surprised how fast it happened. I wouldn't think 89 octane would be any different than regular 87 octane. Maybe I should try 92 octane.
50% Acetone/50% Gasoline works great. Nitro thinner (what ever it is called in the US, its basically paint thinner for nitrocellulose lacquers) also works and.. contains Acetone.
Also, maybe you guys should remember where chemical dedoming comes from: Germany.
Acetone works. Gasoline works. Nitro thinner works. Maybe the mixture is different in the US, I dont know and I dont care. It works for us. People have destroyed the phosphor using just gasoline, so what does that say? Leaded? Unleaded? 92 octane? Exxon? Shell? Too many variables.
I'm tired of all this "I'm right, you're wrong, shut up" shit. Because guess what, nobody is always right.
Ouchie... Ummm, I use probably 87 octane in a mason jar, just drop the star into the jar so it sits on the bottom, maybe 1/2" of gas, and usually just after 2 hours I notice bubbling under the dome and that's when I know it will come off easy and can be cleaned up. Last batch of 3 I left overnight, and they came out cleaner with very little dome material left on the emitter - easy cleanup. So, 1 1/2 hrs is pretty good - maybe suspended on wire upside down like you did in a bigger volume helps? Maybe the octane?
I've done dozens with 87 octane gas, same way -- not one problem - still bat'n 1000.
I ain't say'n I'm right and anyone is wrong, for sure, and I've given credit to the gas technique being from Germany... if that helps?
FYI, I’ve had gasoline take the layer of phosphor off…now that I think about it, only had one successful dedome and I ended up breaking one of the wires later, so….0%.
Regular gas works for me. I think the idea comes from Afghanistan originally, or Peru or something. The Germans copied it and laid claim to the original idea. Cajuns in Southern Louisiana that make moonshine have been pissing on theirs for some 7 years now, never had a failure yet. (Or never found the stars, don’t remember)
Anyone tired of reading anything on here is welcome to read something somewhere else. All anyone can do is give their opinion. There are always going to be variables, unless someone set’s up a de-doming station and guarantee’s the same exact chemical forever. Seems to me the variables are on a day to day basis, regarding the freshness of the chemical in question, the freshness of the emitter in question, and whether or not the person performing the technique is himself/herself a bit pickled upon start time. If I were to buy a reel of 1000 emitters, dump the entire thing into 3 month old chainsaw oil/gas mix, and the domes fell off in 12.3 minutes, that would not mean that it would do the same for anyone else doing 1 or 50 emitters.
No guarantees. That’s the way it looks to me. Just like the tint game, the OTF lumens game, and the driver game. We don’t all get the best host. We don’t all get the best cells. None of our wives/husbands are guaranteed to be the best spouse, 100% of the time. That’s just the way it works people! Get over it.
I’ve learned that if I need a driver, I buy 3. If I want a particular emitter, I get 3. If I need 3, I get 5. We’re all experimenting, be it the 1st time or the 37th time, Comfy has had his successes and failures, as has Tom and NightCrawl and myself. We’ve all been there, we’ve all tried our best ideas and some have had outstanding results and some of those have even been repeatable.
Too bad we can’t all meet on Saturday and get into real life pissing contests and drink a few beers afterwards while the kids have beamshot/flood/throw contests.
Cajuns in Southern Louisiana that make moonshine have been pissing on theirs for some 7 years now, never had a failure yet. (Or never found the stars, don’t remember)