Some OTC solvent data for Oz bees

[suss]

Hello OZ bees,


SWIM has been doing some research on the contents of common solvents/products available in Oz by looking at product MSDS's and chasing up the CAS numbers. He thought you might find the following useful. All products are by "sniggers" and are readily available OTC in hardare shops:


1. White Spirit:  >60% Aliphatic Naptha, 10-30% light aromatic solvent naptha

2. Lacquer Thinner G.P: Toluene 60%, MEK 30%, Butanol 10%

3. Enamel Thinner: >98% aromatic naptha

4. Acrylic thinner: Toluene 30-60%, Xylene <10%, Acetone 30-60%, Cyclohexanone 1-9%


SWIM thought these exact proportions may be of use to fellow bees.

[quantum]

[interested]

Lacquer Thinner G.P: Toluene 60%, MEK 30%, Butanol 10%

As Butanol is miscible with water, could this solvent be simply washed with H2O and used in geezs' full turps cure as the NP solvent?

Acrylic thinner: Toluene 30-60%, Xylene <10%, Acetone 30-60%, Cyclohexanone 1-9%

Would Cyclohexanone be detrimental to this product for use as an effective NP solvent in the full turps cure?

https://www.thevespiary.org/rhodium/Rhodium/chemistry/pseudo.xtract.fullturps.html

[DrLucifer]

While this is informative data, hardware stores in OZ will also supply the following OTC. Which would eliminate the need for fractional distillation.
1. Toluene
2. Acetone
3. VM&P Naptha
4. Xylene
While these solvents contain significant amounts of water, this can obviously be solved by MgSO4..(baked not fried)
Saying that, MEK can be bought in a hardware store in the form of pvc plumbers cement(760ml/L).
Rural hardware stores are swims favourite

[ApprenticeCook]

in the hardware shops its easy to find oxalic, xylene, toluene, HCl everything, and its not mixed in, swim found it bottled with the name in big letters... toluene is a glue solvent so it has a name but underneath its says >60% toluene, guessing the rest is MEOH or water? seeing as its not written anywhere what the other <40% it is presumed water?

[elfspice]

I've seen 'glue removers' with that sort of proportion of tol in them, and they had fuck knows what else - esters, ketones, ammonia, IPA, methanol...

look harder for tol, or just ask the anzacs for a clue  

[n00dle]

SWIM just bought a 250ml bottle of "Priming Fluid" from a local hardware store. SWIM smiled as the bottle read: Contains: 1000ml/L METHYL ETHYL KETONE

Was cheap as chips too.

[placebo]

WOW! MEK, what a thrill, it's about as hard to get as methylated spirits.
Now what do you plan on doing with it?

[elfspice]