The Mellotron Group

The stuff over 94% or so is generally pharmaceutical use in the wider
population and some people have and do drink it. I know the stuff we
get is ingestable for medical reasons. (considering what I think of
drunks it is amusing I have anything like that around).   We get ours
from a pharmaceutical distributor same place we get acetone and
nitogen from.  What I use in my shop is marked 99%, evaporates very
fast, leaves a white residue.  I wouldn't soak rubber in it unless it
was specially compounded stuff, soaking rubber in the 70% is not great
either, there are less destructive ways to clean rollers although the
drying action will give you serious traction before it starts to break
down into powder.

gw

On 1/17/08, jeffc@netaxs.com <jeffc@netaxs.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Mark Pring wrote:
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>  > Might be a New Zealand thing, it isn't easy to get
>  > here, you can get 40% mixed with xylol ie paint
>  > stripper easily enough, I've been told that it can be
>  > used for making metamphetamine or extracting oil from
>  > cannabis, what % do you need for cleaning?
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>  that's really pretty strange.
>  i can vouch for the cannabis thing - it's one of the
>  few things that can get the nasty resinous goo off
>  of things [thought it does, i think, technically
>  just turn it into a stain, so it will turn your
>  fingers all dark and stained...]
>  i mean... i have heard that it can do this.
>  since i don't manufacture meth i can't comment.
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>  the commonly found here in the states stuff can be
>  as much as 93-94% if you look around. you do need
>  to look at the label, as some is as dilute as 70%,
>  but every grocery store here will have at least a
>  few bottles of 92-93%, which is adequate for the
>  cleaning of tape heads, and i guess pinch rollers
>  for a mellotron. i have some rubber cleaner that
>  was given to me by a copier tech friend after,
>  i think it was fritz here on the list, mentioned
>  using it. it did a wonderful job on some rollers
>  on an old analogue 2-track machine i have.
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>  > I have managed to get one of the pharmacists to sell
>  > me some, I need enough to soak 35 tape rollers. But I
>  > got some very funny looks going around town looking
>  > for it. And even stranger looks when I told them what
>  > it was for. I have never said the word Mellotron to
>  > any one in New Zealand with out getting a blank stare.
>  > I haven't met anyone here who has ever noticed that
>  > the intro to Strawberry Fields isn't played on an
>  > acoustic flute.
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>  > Mark
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>  just tell them it's for cleaning tape heads.
>  that's a very common use for it.
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>  and don't drink it - it's not for drinking!
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>  ...jeff
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>  > --- jeffc@netaxs.com wrote:
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>  > > On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Mark Pring wrote:
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>  > > > Anybody else get funny looks when trying to buy
>  > > > ispropyl alcohol? Talk about signing registers?
>  > > What
>  > > > else besides cleaning trons can you do with this
>  > > > stuff?
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>  > > > Mark
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>  > > ummm...
>  > > where the heck are you buying it from?
>  > > you can get 92/93% at any market or pharmacy OTC,
>  > > no questions needed or asked. it's just common
>  > > 'rubbing alcohol' with hundreds of uses, including
>  > > as a disinfectant.
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>  > > are you buying like 100% or something from a
>  > > chemical
>  > > supplier or something?
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>  > > do you need something more than the common stuff?
>  > > just curious why this would be an issue anywhere?
>  > >
>  > > ...jeff [who keeps lots of little bottles of it
>  > > all over the house, for cleaning tape heads,
>  > > removing adhesive left behind by stickers, for
>  > > cleaning CDs and DVDs, even for the windshield
>  > > and wiper blades on the car...]
>  > >


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