Dissolve Permatex???

I have some fairly intricately bent stainless lines that have been plugged with blue Permatex.
I can't push it through due to the bends, and don't have the stainless tubing to re-bend them.

What will dissolve the Permatex?

Thanks!

 

Heat . use a heat gun or hot hair dryer so you don't turn the tubing blue .. 300 degrees is the magic number

 

Try soaking them in mineral spirits - I had to get some silicone mold off of a resin casting a while back and it did the trick. Took a couple days to soften it up though.

 

Lacquer thinner will dissolve Permatex. HRP

 

gas

 

Yes it will, and pretty fast too.

Don

 

not sure this will dissolve blue permatex but i know that black permatex 2 can be disolved with rubbing alcohol.

 

try vinager it destroys silicone ( breaks it up , its one of the ingredients in permatex

 

heptane is used to dissolve silicone adhesive.

 

Aaaaahhhh, the power of the HAMB.

THANKS, appreciate the tips.

Bill

 

Then run an old hunk of speedo cable in the dril thru it like a roto router.

 

..and smack one end to make a "spade", just a tad smaller than the tubing ID

If the tubing ID is too small for a speedo cable, and the bends are not too severe, try some piano wire. McMaster Carr sells it. and smack the end of that too.