On Sun, Aug 11, 2019, 11:29 AM Alan Perry via cctech <cct...@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> > > On 8/11/19 6:58 AM, Charles via cctech wrote: > > Anyway. I did a bit more Googling and discovered that plain water > > dissolves the PVA goop just fine. No need to use a lot of expensive > > alcohol which seems to be a less effective solvent anyway! > > Last Christmas, I removed the old PVA from a DEC VR201 for a Rainbow > 100. On the advice of a website that I found, I bought butyl acetate and > a long needle syringe for injecting it deep into the PVA. > > However, after I removed the seal around the glass/tube, the glass > practically fell off and most of the PVA came off in a sheet. I had some > electronics grade isopropyl alcohol around anyway and I used that to do > a final clean of everything before reassembly and reseal. > What did you replace the PVA with? Warner So, if anyone in the Seattle area needs a bottle of butyl acetate ... > > alan >
