Homebrew PCBs

Andrew wrote:
>> Torin Walker wrote:
>>
>> Home depot sells muriatic acid. It's
>> (nearly) as common as road salt.
> 
> Sorry for being a late entry here.  I know
> this argument has been done to death. I
> know your probably all sick of it.
> 
> HOWEVER.
> 
> In OZ no one sells muriatic acid.  
> Hardware stores and Pool shops all sell
> Hydrochloric acid.  If you ask a concreter
> or pool cleaner about muruatic acid he
> will look at you funny.

Hardware shops here have sold HCl as
"spirits of salts".

> We also don't have lye or soda ash for
> sale here.  About the only name people
> have mentioned that are still sold under
> old world names is Backing Soda (which
> still has "Sodium Bicarbonate" on the
> box as well.
> 
> 
> NB - We don't have things called Sodium
> Carbonate or Sodium Hydroxide for sale on
> the shelves either.  They all have brand
> names like "miracle burn" or "chemiclean"
> but the ingredients list has the real
> names.