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over time, my tacking iron has accumulated "gunk" from dry mount tissue. what have you found to be the best way to clean the iron?i suspect that preheating the unit at low temp and using acetone would be ok. any thoughts??
-- raymond a. bleesz (bleesz@vail.net), February 28, 2000
It should but please be careful with that stuff. It is EXTREMELY flammable, sometimes almost explosively so. The older stick-um used to have a shellac base that alcohol would cut.
-- Tony Brent (ajbrent@mich.com), February 28, 2000.
Seal makes a platen cleaaner that should do the job. It comes in a 2 fl.oz. tub for about $35 from light Impressions/about $26 from B&H. it seems pricey but i have a drymount press that has a pile of gunk on it and I was about to buy a tub unless someone comes up with a better answer here. I tried some 1-1-1 trichoroethane and it did NOT work well.
-- Jim McDonough (jmcdonough@prodigy.net), February 28, 2000.