You can't buy isopropyl alcohol from your local chemist/pharmacist?

We definitely can here in the US. Both 70% and 91% are typically
available. The latter is very flammable but still freely available.

Sean



On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Tamas Rudnai <tamas.rudnai@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Wouter van Ooijen <wouter@voti.nl> wrote:
>> Same for me. Mix with almost anything powdery, in any reasonable ratio,
>> and it will go. In those days some local chemists still sold all kinds
>> of interesting chemicals, and word about them got around quickly in
>> certain circles. Most of the stuff I used back then is not sold publicly
>> any more. Even the school lab was not allowed to stock some of the stuff
>> even then.
>
> When I was a kid I even bought the ferrite-chloride and the
> isopropil-alcohol in the local chemist. Now you have to buy these
> stuff much more expensive from a 'specialist' shop.
>
> BTW: I just about to buy resin from the music shop here, wondering how
> will they look at me when I try explaining that I do not need it for
> violin but for my iron :-)
>
> Tamas
>
>
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