Another successful cat removal. I have a 21FJP22 that had a pretty severe cataract.
I decided to try the "water" method and plopped it face down into an overturned garbage can lid. It sat there for about 3 weeks.
Today I wanted to see how much progress I made and pulled the tube out of the water and turned it over and placed it into a plastic recycling can. It's a perfect fit and a stable way to hold it. I then took several wooden paint stir sticks and began to push them in between the tube face and the safety glass and sat it out in the sunlight for a while.
I started to notice the safety glass showing signs of release from the bonding agent, and over the coarse of the next hour I slowly pushed the sticks in further and further. After about an hour I could see I was getting close.
All of a sudden the sticks all fell to the ground and I picked up the safety glass off of the face of the tube.
I then carefully peeled the bonding agent off of the face and that was it. Done.
Here's the bonding material after removal from the face of the tube.
It took just three weeks to accomplish. Patience does pay off in the end.
Bob