re solvent for duct tape adhesive in article apr uvm edu me pjd emba news uvm edu uucp peter j demko writes from article apr csi jpl nasa gov by eldred rrunner jpl nasa gov dan eldred in article rh b inn r snoopy cis ufl edu ruck beach cis ufl edu john ruckstuhl writes i know this is a long shot but does anyone know what solvent i should use to clean duct tape adhesive from carpet someone taped wires to the carpet and now it is time to move out i don t know for sure that this will work but you might try mek methyl ethyl keytone it worked getting the stickum left over from shelf paper and is available at paint stores use a carbon gas mask and lots of ventilation this stuff really stinks dan for those who don t know methyl ethyl ketone is more commonly known as acetone and can be found as the major active ingredient in nail polish remover your wife s probably got some hangin around oh dear time for me to try to remember my chemistry let s see if i can find the formulae somewhere in the dim recesses of my mind sounds of gears fumes of overheated oil unmistakable stench of the nasal chromatograph ha i knew there was a double bond now how shall i show that in ascii mek acetone c c c c c c c o o the hydrogens are not shown and represents double bond mek has a methyl ch on one side and an ethyl c h on the other acetone has two methyls so acetone is not methyl ethyl ketone but instead is dimethyl ketone both solvents have similar properties i think that mek may be a little less flammable but a lot worse to breathe it s a lot harder to buy mek than it once was use acetone nail polish remover consists almost entirely of acetone if you buy some for your workshop get the very cheapest because the more expensive kind has oils and perfumes that you don t need nothing is so foolish that it has not been posted to some net newsgroup peter neilson neilson osf org quote changed daily if you ve seen this one before burn your calendar
