The stuff over 94% or so is generally pharmaceutical use in the wider
population and some people have and do drink it. I know the stuff we
get is ingestable for medical reasons. (considering what I think of
drunks it is amusing I have anything like that around). We get ours
from a pharmaceutical distributor same place we get acetone and
nitogen from. What I use in my shop is marked 99%, evaporates very
fast, leaves a white residue. I wouldn't soak rubber in it unless it
was specially compounded stuff, soaking rubber in the 70% is not great
either, there are less destructive ways to clean rollers although the
drying action will give you serious traction before it starts to break
down into powder.
gw
On 1/17/08, jeffc@netaxs.com <jeffc@netaxs.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Mark Pring wrote:
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> > Might be a New Zealand thing, it isn't easy to get
> > here, you can get 40% mixed with xylol ie paint
> > stripper easily enough, I've been told that it can be
> > used for making metamphetamine or extracting oil from
> > cannabis, what % do you need for cleaning?
>
> that's really pretty strange.
> i can vouch for the cannabis thing - it's one of the
> few things that can get the nasty resinous goo off
> of things [thought it does, i think, technically
> just turn it into a stain, so it will turn your
> fingers all dark and stained...]
> i mean... i have heard that it can do this.
> since i don't manufacture meth i can't comment.
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> the commonly found here in the states stuff can be
> as much as 93-94% if you look around. you do need
> to look at the label, as some is as dilute as 70%,
> but every grocery store here will have at least a
> few bottles of 92-93%, which is adequate for the
> cleaning of tape heads, and i guess pinch rollers
> for a mellotron. i have some rubber cleaner that
> was given to me by a copier tech friend after,
> i think it was fritz here on the list, mentioned
> using it. it did a wonderful job on some rollers
> on an old analogue 2-track machine i have.
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> > I have managed to get one of the pharmacists to sell
> > me some, I need enough to soak 35 tape rollers. But I
> > got some very funny looks going around town looking
> > for it. And even stranger looks when I told them what
> > it was for. I have never said the word Mellotron to
> > any one in New Zealand with out getting a blank stare.
> > I haven't met anyone here who has ever noticed that
> > the intro to Strawberry Fields isn't played on an
> > acoustic flute.
> >
> > Mark
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> just tell them it's for cleaning tape heads.
> that's a very common use for it.
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> and don't drink it - it's not for drinking!
>
> ...jeff
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> > --- jeffc@netaxs.com wrote:
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> > > On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Mark Pring wrote:
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> > > > Anybody else get funny looks when trying to buy
> > > > ispropyl alcohol? Talk about signing registers?
> > > What
> > > > else besides cleaning trons can you do with this
> > > > stuff?
> > > >
> > > > Mark
> > >
> > >
> > > ummm...
> > > where the heck are you buying it from?
> > > you can get 92/93% at any market or pharmacy OTC,
> > > no questions needed or asked. it's just common
> > > 'rubbing alcohol' with hundreds of uses, including
> > > as a disinfectant.
> > >
> > > are you buying like 100% or something from a
> > > chemical
> > > supplier or something?
> > >
> > > do you need something more than the common stuff?
> > > just curious why this would be an issue anywhere?
> > >
> > > ...jeff [who keeps lots of little bottles of it
> > > all over the house, for cleaning tape heads,
> > > removing adhesive left behind by stickers, for
> > > cleaning CDs and DVDs, even for the windshield
> > > and wiper blades on the car...]
> > >
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