• JustSo [she/her, any]
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    4 hours ago

    tankie kills a dozer.

    Bit of a long shot, but I've been trying to find info about acetone pranks ever since someone told me tantalizingly that you can disable solenoids with it easily.

    I don't suppose you'd know if this is approximately right? It's my current understanding:

    Acetone is deployed mainly to attack the rubber seals in solenoids and also has the effect of speeding up metal corrosion, so it might also be destructive to electronics generally. Presumably also very effective and annoying to deal with on hydraulic and pneumatic systems including seals on actuators etc. You'd expect to deploy the acetone and for it to do most of its work unnoticed causing various points of failure to accelerate rapidly, but not so soon as to pinpoint when you were pulling off your comedic hijinx and not all at once, so you might get lucky and knock it out of commission on back to back projects if some of your jokes don't get noticed during repairs or an expedited service.

    More or less the whole story or am I off in the weeds with this?