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Trial Number 5

Trial Purpose:

To evaluate drop-in solvents on second supplied contaminant mix.

Date Run:

08/26/2004

Experiment Procedure:

Eleven products were selected from the previous test results. Each product was used at full strength in 250 ml beakers at room temperature.

Thirty-three preweighed CDA260 Brass coupons were coated with the second supplied buffing/milling compound mix using a hand held swab. Coupons were allowed to sit overnight and weighed a second time to determine the amount of soil added to each coupon. Three coupons were cleaned in each product for 5 minutes with no agitation. Coupons were air dried at room temperature. Once coupons were dry, final weights were recorded and efficiencies were calculated.

Trial Results:

All but one product (Vertrel MCA) removed over 80% of the contaminant within 5 minutes using immersion with no agitation. One product, Metalnox M6960 removed just over 90%.  The table lists the amount of soil added, the amount remaining and the efficiency for each coupon cleaned.

Cleaner Initial wt Final wt % Removed
Flux Remover C 0.4062 0.0686 83.11
  0.4326 0.0690 84.05
  0.5017 0.0782 84.41
Ensolv 0.3851 0.0524 86.39
  0.3975 0.0517 86.99
  0.4467 0.0585 86.90
Ensolv A 0.4436 0.0582 86.88
  0.4752 0.0781 83.56
  0.5591 0.0598 89.30
Lenium ES 0.5654 0.0619 89.05
  0.4288 0.0540 87.41
  0.6037 0.0514 91.49
Lenium GS 0.6401 0.0717 88.80
  0.7352 0.0668 90.91
  0.5485 0.0645 88.24
Metalnox M6960 0.6118 0.0404 93.40
  0.5341 0.0518 90.30
  0.3361 0.0404 87.98
Solvon PB 0.5595 0.0584 89.56
  0.5377 0.0811 84.92
  0.6142 0.0746 87.85
solvon IP 0.3892 0.0678 82.58
  0.4079 0.0648 84.11
  0.4801 0.0604 87.42
Vertrel CCA 0.6162 0.0875 85.80
  0.4066 0.0776 80.91
  0.6579 0.0851 87.06
Vertrel MCA 0.3292 0.1016 69.14
  0.3669 0.0843 77.02
  0.3679 0.0872 76.30
HFE 71DE 0.7006 0.1130 83.87
  0.4528 0.0738 83.70
  0.2909 0.0735 74.73

Success Rating:

A follow up test, usually based on company input.

Conclusion:

The Kyzen Metalnox M6960 and Petroferm Lenium ES products will be used to clean the supplied parts. Parts will be cleaned using a beaker vapor degreaser.

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