How do I stop LOCA UV iPhone Glue Remover Evaporating From The Plastic Shipping Bottle

Liquid optically-clear adhesive or LOCA is used extensively on the screens of iPhones and other devices to bind the outer protective glass, with glass touch screen to the LCD display.  In the event of damage to the screen then removing the glue to replace the screen on a functional LCD displayed is extremely difficult, as the glue is resistant to most solvents.

A number of sellers are selling a special solvent to soften this LOCA glue, but it is highly volatile stuff and evaporates almost before your eyes.  If you buy a large bottle and it arrives smelling of solvent or with cling film around the top then you need to do something to prevent expensive loss due to evaporation, with your profits or savings vanishing into thin air.

A recent eBay seller suggested to prevent wastage that I keep the glue remover in the small glass bottle and put some in the dropper when I needed it, as I needed to find another solution to the dropper evaporation issue, I created a separate blog entry for this issue:

Link to blog entry on sealing a small plastic dropper bottle with PTFE tape

I then remember an old boss from my days as an Artificial Intelligence programmer with Texas Instruments UK, Graham had done his Ph'd about PTFE tape and discovered how impervious it was and that only Hydrogen (or was it Helium) was capable of getting through a PTFE seal.  So I tried it and low and behold it really worked, no more losses. This tape fix really works, you can SMELL the difference, i.e. nothing. No Leaks and no smell of solvent in the air.

Here is the video I made:

And a link to Amazon UK, the tape is really cheap and in this case could save you a packet:

If your in the USA here is the Amazon USA link to the PTFE Tape:

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