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Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Sources for HCl

From: "Leon Heller" <leon_heller@...>
Date: 2003-11-06

>From: Adam Seychell <adam_seychell@...>
>Reply-To: Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com
>To: Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Sources for HCl
>Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 11:26:09 +1100
>
>Lookup industrial chemical suppliers in the yellow pages, and
>find someone selling in 20 liter drums of concentrated HCl
>(33%wt), its cheap. HCl is not a bomb making material so I can't
>see it being tightly regulated. Maybe the UK government had for
>some reason stopped HCl being sold in the domestic market.

I got some from an old-fashioned hardware store here in Hastings, packed in
a red plastic bottle by Blanchards (who also do NaOH). Ask for 'Spirits of
Salts'. It's sold for cleaning drains and descaling lavatories. It's 32% and
rather nasty - lots of fumes.

Leon
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