3M Super Strength Adhevise SUCKS!

From: Julius Sridhar <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Wed Feb 20 00:49:36 2002

On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Chad Fernandez wrote:

> I work for a manufacturer of truck drive shafts. The steel tubes are
> sprayed with oil at the supplier, so they won't rust. We went to a new
> system where each tube is labeled much earlier in the drive shaft
> assembly line. This mean that each tube has more oil on the tube when
> the label is applied, since fewer gloved hands have touched it. 3M told
> us that they would come up with a label that would stick to grease for
> us.... I laughed when I heard that, but the labels do seem to stick ok.
> Although, we do wipe the tubes with a dry rag first. I'm not sure if
> the label materials are any different than before, as they don't really
> look different.

When I was working for IBM, we had labels that would stay stuck and not
dissolve in boiling perchloric acid. Now that perchloric acid has been
phased out, the same labels survive boiling tetramethylammonium hydroxide.

Peace... Sridhar
Received on Wed Feb 20 2002 - 00:49:36 GMT