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Glad it's worked for you guys. I found it to be junk. Acetone and Dextron don't mix. You've got to shake the heck out of it to get it to barely mechanically mix. As soon as you set it down, it promptly re-seperates. The acetone evaporates extremely quickly, as it always does. In just a few seconds, your squirt of mixture is nothing but ATF.
 
doc, try this, does everything and its great on salid.
 

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foxtrapper said:
Glad it's worked for you guys. I found it to be junk. Acetone and Dextron don't mix. You've got to shake the heck out of it to get it to barely mechanically mix. As soon as you set it down, it promptly re-seperates. The acetone evaporates extremely quickly, as it always does. In just a few seconds, your squirt of mixture is nothing but ATF.
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Yeah, it's a suspension... but the acetone seems to wick carrying enough of the ATF that it WORKS. I have no issue with shaking it before application.
 
Exactly, I mixed mine up in a little glass jar. Applied with a paint brush, made stirring easy. And the bolt broke loose,all I really cared about at the time.
 
I ~GOTTA~ post a photo... :devilgrin:
 
DrEntropy said:
I ~GOTTA~ post <span style="text-decoration: underline"><span style="font-weight: bold">a photo</span></span>... :devilgrin:
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"A photo"?? Wink, wink, nudge nudge, saynomore, saynomore!! :laugh:
 
jessebogan said:
Exactly, I mixed mine up in a little glass jar. Applied with a paint brush, made stirring easy. And the bolt broke loose,all I really cared about at the time.
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Ya know, that's perhaps the secret answer. I was trying to work with a little squirt bottle, and it was not successful, to put it mildly. But a little jar and an acid brush, yea, that might be the ticket.

Never bothered to experiment, but if one of the other solvents mixes with ATF, that would make it easier to use, without shaking or stirring. Lacquer thinner, gasoline, etc.

And separately, ever mixed acetone and Rustoleum rusty metal primer? Makes that soak into rusty surfaces superbly, and gets it to dry hard, not sticky.
 
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