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Does anyone here use acetone? Where do you buy it?
 
If you want small quantities for degreasing then any cosmetic place or chemist will have 500ml bottles for taking off nail varnish.
You need to look for the bottles which say pure acetone, some of them have other stuff added to keep nails moisturised.
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I looked in my wife's cabinet of such things, and nail varnish remover there was acetone-free. I assumed that this meant it wasn't found in pharmacies any more. I'll wander into that section of Boots tomorrow.
 
Yes Amazon, or nail polish remover.

Here in France I can buy all kinds of stuff in my local little supermarket. Acetic acid in high concentrations (you don't want to be putting 30% stuff on your chips), cellulose thinners, linseed oil (it doesn't say raw or boiled) and hydrochloric acid. In 5l containers.

When I was in my teens, I wanted to fuse some Perspex together. At a small local pharmacy, a small (maybe 100ml) bottle of chloroform was mine for 50p. When I went back for some more a few weeks later I was told that the rules had changed just last week and I could no longer buy chloroform.

Now then, I was studying chemistry at school and I knew that chloroform was trichloromethane and I also knew that dichloromethane had very similar properties. So I asked if that also appled to dichloromethane as well.

"Oh no, that's fine, how much would you like?"

S
 
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I use it and it is available in the paint and finishing area of the local Borg type building supply centres.

Pete
 
I got my last bottle from APC along with some isopropryl alcohol
Cant get oxalic acid crystals anymore though

Acetone/sewing machine oil mix makes a superb penetrating fluid vastly superior to wd40
 
Mike G said:
I looked in my wife's cabinet of such things, and nail varnish remover there was acetone-free. I assumed that this meant it wasn't found in pharmacies any more. I'll wander into that section of Boots tomorrow.
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You'll get some funny looks, even more so if you paint your nails bright pink before going. :ROFLMAO:

I tie flies for fishing and being a cheapskate I buy cheap nail varnish (for the fly heads - honest) from the quid stores and I've had those "looks".
 
Steve Maskery said:
When I was in my teens, I wanted to fuse some Perspex together. At a small local pharmacy, a small (maybe 100ml) bottle of chloroform was mine for 50p. When I went back for some more a few weeks later I was told that the rules had changed just last week and I could no longer buy chloroform.

Now then, I was studying chemistry at school and I knew that chloroform was trichloromethane and I also knew that dichloromethane had very similar properties. So I asked if that also appled to dichloromethane as well.

"Oh no, that's fine, how much would you like?"

S
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I remember those times Steve. We used to use it at work sometimes when I was in the plastics industry, we applied it via glass syringes a couple of which I still have in the workshop. I had to apply for approval to buy it for trade purposes.
 
All of the big box hardware stores here, similar to B&Q, have 1 to 5-liter cans of acetone on the shelves in the paint area.
 
I use it regularly, mainly for cleaning plastic and some laminates and Iroko before gluing.
Here in Spain it’s available in most hardware stores, I buy a 1 litre bottle, last me about 6 months
 
Mike, try educational suppliers. They supplied me and my science colleagues with "Winchesters" (5L brown glass bottles). Your Missus may know a Science Tech? Job done? Though, the link posted just above is probably as good a price as you are likely to get.
Above all else, use it in a well ventilated place and never, but never, but never, have a hot metal surface nearby (some "element" heaters). I'll leave you google-fu why.
 
I get through loads of the stuff and tend to buy it from Hexeal. They don't sell it on their website any more (due to restrictions by their online shop web provider apparently) but they still sell on amazon and ebay (ebay's a little cheaper at £6.75 a litre). It's even cheaper (per litre) if you go for 5+ litres (£3.30 a litre if you buy 10 litres).
 
I last bought some on Amazon (5 litres). it was a good price and arrived well packed. It wasn't specifically sold as nail polish remover, but there's a lot on there that is.

Just a note of caution, for woodwork, etc.: Acetone is hygroscopic - it attracts and absorbs water. Generally, for cleaning tasks (and nail polish removal!) this doesn't matter too much, but it really does if you want it for thinning cyanoacrylates (superglues), as the water content will trigger the curing process. So you can make runny superglue, but only for a few seconds...

When Acetone is described as, say 99% pure, the 1% is mostly water, which is way too much. It's worth shopping around for high purity stuff.

I keep mine under the stairs now, as in this property it's the coolest storage area i have. Otherwise, I lose a lot to evaporation.

I will look up Hexeal (above) for the next batch, since it sounds like they're an industrial, more than a nail bar, supplier: Thx. Dr. AI!
 
Lons said:
You'll get some funny looks, even more so if you paint your nails bright pink before going. :ROFLMAO:

I tie flies for fishing and being a cheapskate I buy cheap nail varnish (for the fly heads - honest) from the quid stores and I've had those "looks".
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I smiled at that:

When I got a new camera recently, I frowned at the back caps Canon had got their work experience lad to design. The index marker for getting the bayonet in the right place is next-to invisible, especially in dim light. I was fumbling them, dropping them, chewing them up on the metal bayonet, etc.

So the Domestic Controller got an addition to her Asda list: some bright (REALLY bright) pink nail varnish - the most outrageous and horrible-looking colour she could find (better still if price-reduced!). She really delivered!

Now all my lens caps have an extremely helpful drop of nail varnish marking them for alignment. And my nails all look splendid!*

E.

PS: It's good for all sorts of similar tasks, too, such as marking black handwheels, equipment knobs, etc.

*totally devoid of nail polish obviously.
 
Eric - if she wont agree then These are pretty good
I use then for marking queen bees and writing the tyre pressures on the tyres amongdt other things
 
Here...

Catalysts, solvents and Additives - EC Fibreglass

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They used to have a comfy sofa and a fish tank in the reception while you waited for your order to be picked!
 
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