Anyone have a spare Apple IIgs power supply?

[Charles]

just just acetone… it works the best anyways.


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.
>