Bob Rooks
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I believe you were lucky Dave, for two reasons. 1) The joint was made up correctly in the first place, sealing both ends of the threaded portion of the joint, allowing the threaded portion to be preserved. 2) One side of the joint, if I understand correctly, is the bronze meter which is far more noble than the galvanized pipe (threads are not galvanized) and would have parted easily anyway. Back in the day it was probably not known to sleeve pipes in acidic environments, or to bed them in washed sand.Not only did I get it apart, but the pipe threads did not "grab" each other, and looked perfectly preserved after the fitting came off, so I was able to screw a brand new one on and get a good seal.
If you Google Mixing acetone with ATF - Google Search you will find as many successes as failures. Snopes doesn't turn up anything.