Removing cyanoacrylate bloom

Ouch...

"Can you give me details of your liability insurance please, these will all need to be replaced using the special glue we provided, told you about, and you ignored"

Make it their problem. They replace or pay for the tubes and contents, then it gets done again.

e a fairly good job of

ud to get to it....

That's for another day - we discovered the problem on Friday and there's a truck scheduled to pick them up on Monday to take them to the other side of Europe, and a whole bunch of other logistics (flights, visas, build facility bookings) dependent on them arriving on time..... We also don't yet know if the original supplier has stock of replacement material.

fairly good job of

to get to it....

acetone, and pretty much ONLY acetone, apart from custom debonders will pull CA off.

I cant see the OP, but if you can soak the part in acetone somehow, it will take off all teh CA.

My only concern with all of this would be, is the cleaning going to cause more damage than the original bloom? As they say on the adverts, try it on an inconspicuous area first.

the special film inside the tubes is polycarbonate so acetone is not an option...

acetone doesnt attack polycarbonate I dont think.

From Wikipedia : Acetone is a good solvent for most plastics and synthetic fibres including those used in laboratory bottles made of polystyrene, polycarbonate and some types of polypropylene.

Yebbut TNPs last three words were accurate.

those used in laboratory

oh bugger. Cancel that then.

That is SUCH a useful post, I have decided that you are in the plonk file

Bye.,...

What a plonker!