On Nov 23, 2009, at 8:22 AM, Marcel Carey wrote: > No, it has water in it. Use methyl hydrate instead. > > Marcel Carey > Probably the most available in the US is called Shellac Thinner (duh) or denatured alcohol. From any paint or building supply store. I have never seen anything in the US labeled methyl hydrate. I assume it is a formulation of methyl alcohol, which gets into drug enforcement problems (ingredient in meth). Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico fssturm at unm.edu > > This is interesting. Does it matter much what kind of alcohol you > use? For example, I happen to have here a bottle of isopropyl > rubbing alcohol, 50% by volume, is that suitable > ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20091123/6b5b54af/attachment.htm>
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