MEK is nasty. Be sure to use appropriate PPE.
We use MEK to scrub our machines.
One guy used to clean, no mask, no gloves.
Epoxy resins, and MEK, sleeves rolled up, bare hands.
We finally got him to stop. But if he gets resin on himself.
he still goes to a bucket of MEK, and washes up to his elbows.
Our chemist calls it Methyl Ethyl Death.
Vinegar breaks down epoxy before completely cured, and you smell like a salad so skinny girls will be attracted to you.
This isn't simple 2 part epoxy used as glue or filler.
This is 15-50 gallon vats filled with complex b-stage or pre-preg heat cured epoxy's.
Usually modified with ingredients to raise heat thresholds, enhance flexability, or abrasion resistance.
One example.
Coarse woven fiberglass, (imagine cloth woven out of baler twine) coated with a b-stage resin.
When we are done, it's still a bit tacky.
Shipped out in rolls, it goes to a pressing facility.
They cut sheets, stack it in dies and the heated press forms it, binds the layers, and cures the resin.
The result is the explosion resistant panels on the military MRAP.
Similar process on ballistic cloths for helmets or armored cars.
MEK, is one thing we use by the drum.
MIBK, Toulene, Acetone, Ethyl-Acetate, Methanol, Ethyl-alcohol, Isopropyl,
That's a quick list. Lots of good for you things.
Funny thing, the plant opened as part of a corporate electrical division, so we are
considered an electrical manufacturer not a chemical facility. Every single item we
produce is a chemical coating process.
