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Acetone and RTV Silicone

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By Pembroke - 9/19/2012 3:27:42 PM

I've seen the two posts about cleaning equipment with acetone, can you tell me if I can also use it to clean my RTV silicone moulds that I've cast using your products?

The reason I ask is I've recently had a casting fail in that it didn't harden properly so there is partially hardened polyurethane resin on some areas of the moulds and I want to clean them up to use again.
By matthieutje65 - 1/4/2013 11:31:31 PM

Think Fgayford is right,
Test some stuff out to be sure... Pure vinegar is good to clean epoxy, Acetone worked well as on a polyestermould of mine...
I had some uncured epoxy gelcoat sticking on the polyester mould and then used acetone and some sandpaper to clean the mould...
Had to pollish the mould again after that was done. 

Normaly silicone is good against chemicals and so on but like Fgayford said, test some stuff out on leftovers you have Wink 
Let us know how you did it and what you tried, curious about this one Smile