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RE: MEK


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You could have found MEK in photo studios among those of us doing alt surfaces for silver... the MEK was used as a component in the "subb" ... that is how it is in my memory from 40 yrs ago. I bound "film" to plastic. also "coated" gelatin to be inked onto plastic. these were then curved gently, or formed onto plaster casts. these works were then integrated into an "environment" and abandoned.
... richard

PS. My comment on MEK was meant to caution you but not keep you from it. Heck I bet sign painters, possibly glass workers have it. Your local auto body shop is not staffed by organic chemists working their way toward their next patent.


--- On Thu, 9/4/08, Marek Matusz <marekmatusz@hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Marek Matusz <marekmatusz@hotmail.com>
> Subject: RE: gum preservatves
> To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
> Date: Thursday, September 4, 2008, 7:37 PM
......> the car that you sold 10 years ago? The peroxide is not an
> alt chemical that I know of.
> Marek> Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 22:06:10 -0400> From:
> jseigel@panix.com> Subject: Re: gum preservatves> To:
> alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca> > Thanks, Dirk-Jan, for
> the heads up -- I wasn't going to use it, but I was >
> probably going to dispose of it casually. However it really
> is a small > amount -- maybe 15 cc... Meanwhile, and also
> -- I haven't the foggiest > idea where it came from
> or how it got into my cabinet, where it has rested > AT
> LEAST 10 years...> > J.> > On Thu, 4 Sep 2008,
> Dirk-Jan Treffers wrote:> > > Judy,> >>
> > MEK peroxide is a synonym for methyl ethyl ketone
> peroxide. Seriously> > dangerous stuff:> >
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methyl_ethyl_ketone_peroxide>
> >
> http://www.intox.org/databank/documents/chemical/methylep/cie345.htm>
> >> > I advise to not use this stuff, as thymol is a
> far safer preservative.> > Or try the other options
> mentioned by others in this discussion list.> > If I
> were you, I;d get rit of the bottle and hand it over to
> local> > authoryties that collect chemical waste from
> households. Peroxides,> > especcially those who have
> been on the shelf for several years, can be> > very
> instable. Some of them even explosive. Not to scare you,
> of> > course, just to give a warning to be carefull
> whith this stuff....> > I've studies chemistry,
> and have seen more than one accident happen> >