Thread: Fix Dried Up Dremel Poilshing Compound Answered

Okay guys, here’s what I do. Get a knife and scrape some shavings off the compound. I like to finish crushing compound into what looks like red dust. I’ve even pushed it through a screen making a fine powder. Then all it takes is a dropper with a little rubbing alcohol. I usually use 50 percent.
It will dry up again so just add more rubbing alcohol. Make it as thick or thin as you like.
*Mixing compound with water after alcohol will only make it waxy and not spread out until you use alcohol again.

Welcome, Gypsy.

Indeed, a little butter helps a lot of dried-out products.
I hate to toss anything, so I try a few things with some. WD40 in the anti-seize jar.
I have an aerosol can of plastic polish which lost it's charge.
Drilled a hole in the side of the top. Toothpick seals the hole.
Shake it up and dribble it out!

This subforum is for things to do with the actual web-site.
Things such as this are greatly welcomed in the workshop subforum below. VVVV

Thanks! Lots of old products around here.
Watch out for Hot Stuff Super glue in a thin plastic bottle, maybe some others. Bottles get dried out and split. Future floor wax has the same problem in a plastic bottle.
~Richard

It's crazy how any sunlight will kill some bottles before you can use the product up.


Perhaps a Moderator could move this to the workshop.
Interesting topic, I think........