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RE: [ATM] RE: Silicone Failure

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Subject: RE: [ATM] RE: Silicone Failure
From: "mbyorick" <mbyorick@starband.net>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 10:36:50 -0600
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McMaster-Carr sells Dow Corning 832 silicone for $8.75 a tube.  This
stuff is alcohol-based, and is "noncorrosive".  It is the adhesive of
choice for attaching very large (multi-ton) mirrors to metal lifting
pads (etc.) at the Steward Mirror Lab (for one example).

Mike Byorick

> 
> I do not think that acetic acid based silicones are best thing to use
on
> metals.
> This acid is highly corrosive.
> 
> Vladimir.

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References:
- Re: [ATM] RE: Silicone Failure
  - From: "Vladimir Galogaza" <vladimir.galogaza@zg.htnet.hr>

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