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Old 07-06-2007, 02:56 PM
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I have a suggestion if someone wants/dares to try it:
If you really, really, really want to do a post 10/02 headlight, i wold try to smear nmp (N-methylpyrrolidone) several times on the edge of the seal. That would soak the seal and dissolve the glue, IF it is an epoxy glue (which it sound like).
We use it at our company, where we use one of the toughest epoxies available (Ablebond) and it swells the epoxy and makes it loose its adhesion.
I don't know how long it would take for a headlight, since we are using wery small thin glue layers for our products.
It might take a day, days or week(s).
Raised temp also helps, we use it for soaking one night at 80 deg C (175 F) and then we can just lift off the glue with a tweezer.
concerns:
1. If the lense is of the wrong plastic, it might also swell slightly, if it's glass it's OK.
2. The sealing strip will most probably be destroyed, baking it afterwards might save it, ( evaporates the NMP from the material) some rubber product have shown that in our lab.

Some pro's, some con's......

NMP can be bought from most vendors dealing lab chemicals by anyone.

Last of all, I give no guarantees, you're doing this on your own risk.
BUT, if it is an epoxy, it will most certainly loosen with DMP.
So it is up to who have enough drive to dare it.

Link:
http://clean.rti.org/alt.cfm?id=nmp&cat=ov

just google for NMP or N-methylpyrrolidone

A bit scary maybe, anyone dares to try ??
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