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I thought he was joking? I hope nobody would use acetone! LOL Best, Sean On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Tothwolf <tothwolf at concentric.net> wrote: > On Fri, 12 Dec 2014, Charles wrote: > >> On Dec 12, 2014, at 11:44 AM, Peter Corlett <abuse at cabal.org.uk> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 10:15:28AM -0500, Sean Caron wrote: >>> >>> I'm not sure what the formulation was in the past but denatured alcohol >>>> nowadays is just ethanol with maybe 5-10% methanol added. You definitely >>>> shouldn't be drinking it (in vivo, methanol is metabolized to formaldehyde >>>> via oxidative reduction - formaldehyde attacks the optic nerve - which is >>>> why drinking wood methanol makes you go blind) but other than that, I >>>> wouldn't say it's particularly more harmful to you, boards or components >>>> than isopropanol is. You wouldn't want to drink that, either! >>>> >>> >>> Wikpedia references EU Regulation 162/2013, which gives the various >>> recipes >>> across the EU: >>> http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri= >>> OJ:L:2013:049:0055:0061:EN:PDF >>> >>> Taking a random sample from a few different countries, the basic recipe >>> seems to be 1% mixed crud to make it unpalatable, up to 10% methanol, and >>> the rest ethanol. The ethanol and methanol will evaporate readily enough, >>> but I'd be somewhat concerned about residue left from non-volatile >>> components of the 1%. >>> >>> It's not like isopropanol is terribly expensive or difficult to get hold >>> of. I can order ten litres of it from Amazon ?28.66 with free delivery. >>> If anything, it seems to be slightly cheaper than meths. >>> >> >> just just acetone? it works the best anyways. >> > > Sure...if you want to dissolve the epoxy substrate, any number of plastic > or rubber-like compounds (capacitor end seals, anyone?), or the enamel > coating on magnet wire... >