Removing Gripfill
The Medway Handyman
by a Gripfill junkie, loads of it all over the unpainted pine architrave
next to the boxing.
Bugger to get off! Cut most away with a Stanley knife & scraper. Hard to
sand because it seems flexible like caulk.
Anything that will dissolve Gripfill?
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Dave
The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk
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07850 597257
Grumpy owd man
The ONLY thing I have ever got it off with was an old Skarsten Scraper;
not even sure if they still make them though.
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Scabbydug
"Grumpy owd man" <pen...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1b5e635eb17614509c0...@mygate.mailgate.org...
> Semtex, C4 [not the Sinclair variant]
>
>
> The ONLY thing I have ever got it off with was an old Skarsten Scraper;
> not even sure if they still make them though.
>
They are still available, Faithfull tools do a lookalike, they don't do old
ones though, only new. :o)
Andy Dingley
<pen...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>The ONLY thing I have ever got it off with was an old Skarsten Scraper;
>not even sure if they still make them though.
No, but Sandvik do. Carbide bladed ones too.
Gripfill is normally dissolved with a solvent mix based around
cyclohexane. My bottle of that arrived from a chemist friend carefully
labelled as "Fucking Flammable". You don;t want to mess with it -- there
are numerous recorded cases of death by exploding Gripfill fumes. It's
certainly not something you want to try dissolving on site.
Weatherlawyer
> On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 21:33:02 +0000 (UTC), "Grumpy owd man"
>
> <pen...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >The ONLY thing I have ever got it off with was an old Skarsten Scraper;
> >not even sure if they still make them though.
>
> cyclohexane. My bottle of that arrived from a chemist friend carefully
> are numerous recorded cases of death by exploding Gripfill fumes. It's
> certainly not something you want to try dissolving on site.
Quite:
At 16:53 on Saturday 1 June 1974, the temporary bypass pipe
(containing cyclohexane at 150°C (302°F) and 1 MPa) ruptured, possibly
as a result of a fire on a nearby 8 inch (20 cm) pipe which had been
burning for nearly an hour. Within a minute, about 40 tonnes of the
plant's 400 tonne store of cyclohexane leaked from the pipe and formed
a vapour cloud 100-200 metres (320-650 feet) in diameter.
The cloud, on coming in contact with an ignition source (probably a
furnace at a nearby hydrogen production plant) exploded, completely
destroying the plant. Around 1,800 buildings within a mile radius of
the site were damaged.
The fuel-air explosion was estimated to be equivalent to 15 tonnes of
TNT (60 gigajoules) and it killed all 18 employees in the nearby
control room. Nine other site workers were killed, and a delivery
driver died of a heart attack in his cab.
Observers have said that had the explosion occurred on a weekday, more
than 500 plant employees would likely have been killed. Resulting
fires raged in the area for over 10 days. It was Britain's biggest
ever peacetime explosion until the Buncefield Depot explosion in 2005.
Substantial destruction of property was recorded in Flixborough
itself, as well as in the neighbouring villages of Burton-on-Stather
and Amcotts. Significant structural damage affected Scunthorpe (eight
miles away) and the blast was heard (and felt) twenty-five miles away
in Grimsby.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flixborough_disaster
Someone should have been hanged for that. But they gave Lord Robbens a
golden handshake for Aberfan; so no change there then:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/983056.stm
I'd stick to rampant door frames if I were the OP. That way I'd be the
only one to come unstuck.