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Old 7th Aug 2021, 7:36 pm   #16
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Default Re: Coughtrie light, stuck glass!

Is the problem a painted aluminium body that has a paint layer which has failed.
It has corroded underneath and and swollen up as a result? Then you want something that will attack and dissolve aluminium oxide but so much aluminium base metal.

Any chemists out there? I'm sort of thinking electrolysis.The blokes who restore paraffin stoves and pressure lamps have some ideas on this.
They do scary things with old PC power supplies.

Me? I'd rather there was a good old transformer in the way.
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