The Mellotron Group

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "john barrick" <astroboy@cinci.rr.com>
To: <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 10:10 PM
Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Cleaners


> So what is Methylated Spirit?  Can you ask for it by that name in the
> US?  I don't know that you can still get Carbon Tetrachloride here.  It
> used to be available as a product called Carbona, but I haven't seen
> that since the early '90s.  It was a wonderful cleaning agent.  I think
> it may have given folks cancer, though.

What, as in The Ramones' copyright-infringing withdrawn track Carbona Not 
Glue? Cool. Sample lyric:

"Well, I'm not sorry for the things I do,
My brain is stuck from shooting glue,
Ooh, Carbona not glue..."     :-)

> Methylated spirit is ethanol to which methyl aclohol has been added to 
> stop people drinking it, methyl alcohol can kill you and cause blindness 
> if you drink it.

Doesn't seem to stop the determined.

Andy T.