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Re: Humity Control--dessicant

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Subject: Re: Humity Control--dessicant
From: <wmtsmith@landracing.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 19:11:57 -0400
You can get the dessicant form West Marine or other marine stores--works great. 
wmts
> 
> From: "Albaugh, Neil" <albaugh_neil@ti.com>
> Date: 2002/06/18 Tue PM 04:05:59 EDT
> To: "'LGMCAFEE@aol.com'" <LGMCAFEE@aol.com>,  land-speed@autox.team.net
> Subject: RE: Imron paint
> 
> List;
> 
> One suggestion is to buy an empty paint can from Home Depot or somewhere and
> store the can of leftover activator inside. Pound the outside can lid on
> gently and it should seal airtight. A Mason or Ball home canning jar is also
> good but they don't hold as big a can inside.
> 
> For really good humidity protection, you can toss in a bag or two of
> dessicant before you seal the outer can lid. Silica gel dessicant is used to
> keep military stuff dry and sometimes small bags of it also come in
> electronics packages. 
> 
> Bake the silica gel bags in an oven for a few hours at around 300F to drive
> off the moisture ("activate" the dessicant) and then use it immediately. It
> absorbs the water vapor (humidity) out of the air inside the can. There is
> usually a red/blue indicator in mil-spec bags that show when it needs to be
> re-activated.
> 
> This works for any hygroscopic material such as brake fluid, etc., where
> "dry is better."
> 
> Regards, Neil     Tucson, AZ  where it's 108 degrees but only 12% relative
> humidity
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LGMCAFEE@aol.com [mailto:LGMCAFEE@aol.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 12:40 PM
> To: land-speed@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Imron paint
> 
> 
> In a message dated 6/18/02 1:28:32 PM Central Daylight Time, 
> wester6935@attbi.com writes:
> 
> << Our local guys, Monte Widdison and Ed Shearer are very knowledgeable
> about
>  paint.  
>  
>  Monte says that the activator is like brake fluid, very susceptible to
>  moisture and moisture is the thing that starts the chemical reaction with
>  the paint.  If you are in a higher humidity area, the activator goes bad
>  that much faster.  Your experience is consistent with those facts ...
> worked
>  well when fresh, no good when it was just a month old.  Chances are that if
>  you get new activator and use it immediately you will have no further
>  problems with duPont Imron paint.  And this was advice from a PPG paint
> man.
>  
>  Wes
>   >>
> Wes this could very well be the problem (high humidity) we have plenty of 
> that in Mo. I just never had that problem before, what can be done to solve 
> that problem other than to use a new bottle of activator each time which I 
> can't afford to do. Thanks Larry Mac 
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