Degreasing with acetone, Baquacil

I asked this question and got plenty of info. Just search it out. I personally rinse mine when switching

 

I'd give it at least two days depending on the skull. I've had a small amount of baquacil in a small bowl with teeth for over a week and it is just as potent at the end of that week as at the beginning. If you have any areas in the skull that haven't dried or where BO has pooled inside the skull, a day is not enough to dry or neutralize the BO by any means. For example, I have had deer skulls come out of BO, dry for 1-2 days and then go back in my water/dawn etc mix only to find that it slightly whitened the antlers up to the water level.

I allow my skulls to dry for a 1-2 between degreasing and whitening and 2-3 days between BO and going back to degreasing. I also put a heat lamp over them at every stage where they need to dry.

 

Acetone-dry for 24 hours to be sure. BO-rinse well with water and let dry for maybe 2 days before putting into acetone. You can also drop the BO soaked bone into HOT water. It forces the peroxide to break down much faster. Leave it till it cools then dry.

You can also try straight ammonia to degrease, even heated. For large bones I have even rigged an aquarium pump and tubing to pump ammonia up off the bottom of a container and over the top of large bones so it runs down and flows over the surfaces.

 

I've been using a old food dehydrator to speed up the drying process. If you see one at a yard sale cheap they are worth their weight. You can throw small skulls in there are they are dry with in a couple of hours. Most deer can be dried in four to five even with the door open and horns sticking out. If your drying one straight out of a acetone bath imagine that it would take less than a half hour to dry due to acetones evaporation point. Having said that YOU WOULD NOT WANT TO RUN IT ON HIGH HEAT due to its low flash point.

 

Hello I am new to this so please bear with me. My first ? is what is the proper way to degrease a skull and what does acetone do. I have just tried dawn.

 

Jason ... Go to the top "SEARCH" window and type in "DEGREASING" also type in "ACETONE". You have a lot of reading to do.

Also try "Degreasing Skulls" ... or any other combinations you can think of.

 

Thank you very much.

 

I want to try Acetone on a stubborn deer skull that's been degreasing for over a month and still has two small grease spots on the forehead. I searched the archives for hours last night and read of people doing it with deer, and I know it needs to be sealed, but I found nothing on how to seal off the container with antlers sticking out. Could I use like a galvanized trash can with a trash bag or something taped over the top?

 

The trash bag would work that way you can customize the lid to the antlers. The only thing is make sure it doesn't touch the acetone. It will eat the bag quicker than you can imagine.

 

55 gallon drum. I put the skull in a 2 gallon tin with my degreaser and then set them both in the drum and put the top on. Keep the vapors in check and prevents evaporation to a degree. Works for all but the axis/fallow. I have a 95 gallon recovery drum for those.