How do y’all clean them? At the very least, they’ll slowly fill with epoxy, right? Are they semi-disposable in that you can use them a few times before they’re too full of cured epoxy to be effective?
I cleaned mine with vinegar and a toothbrush, but since it was a long session, there is still cured epoxy toward the middle.
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Cleaning bubble rollers.
Re: Cleaning bubble rollers.
I wipe mine off with denatured alcohol on a rag. After several uses once the channels are filled up I burn the epoxy with a plumbers torch to make it charred and brittle then knock it off quickly with a wire wheel. I tried just the wire wheel but the epoxy is almost as hard as the aluminum so doesn't work well. Once burned it's easy, but do it outside!
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Re: Cleaning bubble rollers.
Leave in acetone. Use dental pick to clean now and then. Got a whole boat from mine.jbo_c wrote: ↑Mon Oct 24, 2022 6:54 pm How do y’all clean them? At the very least, they’ll slowly fill with epoxy, right? Are they semi-disposable in that you can use them a few times before they’re too full of cured epoxy to be effective?
I cleaned mine with vinegar and a toothbrush, but since it was a long session, there is still cured epoxy toward the middle.
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Re: Cleaning bubble rollers.
If you are organised and can get it into acetone before it gels, all good. I'm not so organised, but a wire brush, heat gun and propane torch work too. Worse comes to worse, a few more metal rollers will not be the biggest wastage on the build.
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Re: Cleaning bubble rollers.
MEK will melt cured epoxy. I keep a container with some in it to degunk bubble busters. A stainless steel wire brush makes short work of it.
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Re: Cleaning bubble rollers.
I'll have to try that. I was using what OWT and FG were doing, but sometimes I waited a bit too long to dump the rollers in my acetone pail. Then it was a pain to clean off.Knottybuoyz wrote: ↑Tue Oct 25, 2022 7:23 am MEK will melt cured epoxy. I keep a container with some in it to degunk bubble busters. A stainless steel wire brush makes short work of it.
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