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Polyisobutylene

Marsh - 27-2-2007 at 23:46

Can PiB be found in the medium to high molecular weight anywhere online? Low molecular weight will not work for me.

I hear it can be extracted from self-vulcanizing tape, but it seems that it should be fairly common enough to be available somewhere, maybe not.

Thanks.

Swany - 28-2-2007 at 08:39

How much do you need? The extraction from self-vulcanizing tape is fairly straight-forward, however one needs a large amount of tape, and it is fairly expensive for the amount of PiB.

I seem to recall there are several other products that contain larger amounts of PiB that may be more economical to extract from...

.torNO - 28-2-2007 at 09:29

Butyl rubber inner tubes?