What is "Metho"?

[Robin Stevens]

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 "denatured alcohol" Would be rather a mouthful for a drunk to get out at=
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chemist (drug store).=0D
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"Btle metho, mate" would be all that is needed here in Ozzie land.=0D
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Robin Stevens=0D
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Date: 01/14/05 12:35:00=0D
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What language, exactly, are we speaking here, Mate? Fair dinkum it ain't.
Never heard of this here metho stuff. Here in the Northern Hemisphere, we
prefer tasty cleaning solvents. =0D
And youse guys and us guys obviously butcher, mangle, twist, and torture =
the
King's English in distinctly different ways. He put metho in his brasso,
slipped in the batho, and fell on his ... uh ... rubber duckie?=0D
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From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Beh=
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Subject: What is "Metho"?=0D
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 Hi Don...Methylated Spirits is a mixture 95%V/V Ethanol and 5% of a NAST=
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tasting liquid to stop the down and outs from drinking it!!! It was used =
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a cheap form of a drinking Spirit by homeless drunks.=0D
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The French polishers use it to create the liquid Schellac for polishing.
There is many a story about old French polishers drinking the vile tastin=
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stuff!!. =0D
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I would say in America you would call it something else. Used in every
household here in Australia as a cleaning agent.=0D
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I think the purpose of adding the "Metho' was to thin the Brasso down a b=
it.=0D
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Regards=0D
Robin Stevens =0D
South Australia=0D
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From: Pianotech=0D
Date: 01/14/05 09:54:53=0D
To: Pianotech=0D
Subject: Re: Polishing White Plastic Key-tops=0D
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Hi Robin,=0D
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What is metho?=0D
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At 08:49 AM 14/01/2005 +1030, you wrote:=0D
>       In my days at a firm that sold, and serviced Steinways, any key=0D
>polishing was done with a foot square slab of scrap half inch hammer fel=
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>with Brasso and metho.       The felt slab was glued to a board to make =
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>portable. Then a small amount of Brasso was put on the felt with the sam=
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>amount of metho.=0D
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Regards,=0D
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.=0D
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