Charcoal lighter fluid is low on odour, though a bit oilier (higher boiling point?) that thinner, and will sometimes substitute for thinners. And it is easily available, at least in summer.
Thomas Prufer
Removing rust mark on wet room floor
Jan 13, 2025
Last reply: 1 year ago
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Hmm, I wonder how pure that is (I expect not very), and whether that matters? "100% Hydrocarbons, C11-C14, n-alkanes, isoalkanes, cyclics, <2% aromatics. " according to:
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seems pretty similar to white spirit.
One of the proprietary solvents, 'Corrolan Turbo':
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lists 'D100 solvent' (= Shellsol D100) on the MSDS but doesn't say whether it's 100% or has other things in it. It's about £6/litre which is better than £18. Maybe it's just not possible to buy industrial Shellsol in smaller than a barrel?
Theo
It seemed to have removed it OK . Maybe just a surface mark and I got lucky
Tnx
Brian
Ah, the MSDS for the gel has:
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water 55 - 65% triethanolamine phosphate 20 - 30% aluminium sulphate 1 - 5% citric acid 1 - 5% dipropylene glycol methyl ether 1 - 5
Wikipedia says something interesting:
"Another common use of TEOA [triethanolamine] is as a complexing agent for aluminium ions in aqueous solutions. This reaction is often used to mask such ions before complexometric titrations with another chelating agent such as EDTA"
so maybe some kind of aluminium sulphate + TEOA + citric chelating is going on... I probably need to spend some time understanding the chemistry better.
Theo
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