<div dir="ltr">Hi Hank,<div><br></div><div>I've used both acetone and gasoline for dissolving foam. They worked about the same, and neither produced something that would pour. I suspect in either case you'd end up needing a hole large enough to get a hand into the tank. </div><div><br></div><div>Best,<br>Alec</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 8:04 PM, Alan via Personal_Submersibles <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Hank,</div><div id="m_-6841958241509759008AppleMailSignature">the polystyrene I used ended up a sloppy jelly consistency.</div><div id="m_-6841958241509759008AppleMailSignature">Not sure whether you could pour it out. Mine was a large area though</div><div id="m_-6841958241509759008AppleMailSignature">and it reduces to a small amount. Depending on what you are doing you</div><div id="m_-6841958241509759008AppleMailSignature">may want to leave it in there to get hard.</div><div id="m_-6841958241509759008AppleMailSignature">Apparently if you set the slop on fire it is like napalm, keeps on burning.</div><span class=""><div id="m_-6841958241509759008AppleMailSignature">Alan</div><div id="m_-6841958241509759008AppleMailSignature"> <br><br>Sent from my iPad</div></span><div><div class="h5"><div><br>On 30/07/2018, at 11:25 AM, hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles <<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank">personal_submersibles@psubs.<wbr>org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div></div>
<div>Alan,</div><div>Thanks' I heard that gasoline works but I only want to make a small hole in the tank, so it needs to all come out. </div><div>Hank</div><div><br></div>
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<div><div id="m_-6841958241509759008yiv0454202455"><div><div>Hank,</div><div id="m_-6841958241509759008yiv0454202455AppleMailSignature">I formed my ballast tank out of polystyrene, fibreglassed over the top</div><div id="m_-6841958241509759008yiv0454202455AppleMailSignature">& dissolved the polystyrene out with petrol. Petrol being cheaper than acetone.</div><div id="m_-6841958241509759008yiv0454202455AppleMailSignature">It dissolved it to a sloppy consistency that you could scrape out, but left</div><div id="m_-6841958241509759008yiv0454202455AppleMailSignature">a hard shell of plastic in places. Maybe check a sample out to see how it dissolves</div><div id="m_-6841958241509759008yiv0454202455AppleMailSignature">with petrol & acetone.</div><div id="m_-6841958241509759008yiv0454202455AppleMailSignature">Alan<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Sent from my iPad</div><div class="m_-6841958241509759008yiv0454202455yqt1632651524" id="m_-6841958241509759008yiv0454202455yqt67348"><div><br clear="none">On 30/07/2018, at 10:04 AM, hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank">personal_submersibles@psubs.<wbr>org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>Hi All,</div><div>I am going to repurpose a couple of dock floats that are ABS plastic I think and foam filled. I need to remove the foam. I understand that Acetone works for that. I have never done this, so what do I do? </div><div>Hank</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"></div></div></div></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>______________________________<wbr>_________________</span><br clear="none"><span>Personal_Submersibles mailing list</span><br clear="none"><span><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="mailto:Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank">Personal_Submersibles@psubs.<wbr>org</a></span><br clear="none"><span><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles" target="_blank">http://www.psubs.org/mailman/<wbr>listinfo.cgi/personal_<wbr>submersibles</a></span><br clear="none"></div></blockquote></div></div><div class="m_-6841958241509759008yqt1632651524" id="m_-6841958241509759008yqt98243">______________________________<wbr>_________________<br clear="none">Personal_Submersibles mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank">Personal_Submersibles@psubs.<wbr>org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles" target="_blank">http://www.psubs.org/mailman/<wbr>listinfo.cgi/personal_<wbr>submersibles</a><br clear="none"></div></div>
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