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Keep your Whisky away from your Flame Polished Acrylic
RandyT:
Looks to me like the stress is created by the heating process, and the alcohol, being a pretty strong solvent, eats into the surface of the stressed area, creating a microscopic path of stress release. The moment such a path is created, all of the surrounding stresses are channeled to that small area, and it tries to normalize, thus creating the fractures.
RandyT
pinballjim:
Well, off to refill all my empty Jack Daniel's bottles with denatured alcohol.
xefned:
Cool! Now I know how to reproduce an authentic vintage look to my acrylic. >:D
griffindodd:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on September 21, 2012, 02:11:32 pm ---Well, off to refill all my empty Jack Daniel's bottles with denatured alcohol.
--- End quote ---
Yep it's the weekend, party at Jim's house
SavannahLion:
First off, denatured is fairly high proof. Not sure if whiskey will trigger it, I know beer won't.
Second, before everyone goes off half cocked, do the research. I came across this for a related issue and found posts like this from 2007. Pay attention to the annealing link. In a nutshell, it's fixable.... Not after the fact of course.
Heat treating your pinball parts isn't worrisome unless you intend to fill your table with moonshine or some such.
note: fixed URL. Sorry about that, I didn't notice it when I posted the first time.....
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