In need of a small quantity of acetone for cleaning.
Hopefully 1 litre or so of very basic or rough grade - not for direct human contact - should see the job done. Nothing whatever to do with hair or nail extensions!
I have never bought it before. It's on ebay but where should I expect to buy it in a town - high street, industrial cleaning agent suppliers, car parts factors or..?
Any brand name to look for?
TIA
Make sure you don't develop a sudden liking for chapatis too ;-)
If you are unfortunate enough to live anywhere like here then try a local nail bar: they get through loads of the stuff as nail varnish remover and I've seen them[1] with 1 and (I think) 5 liter bottles. Online prices seem to be ~£5 a liter:
[1] when passing - I can't afford to get my nails done at their prices!
A gallon is probably cheaper. Try somewhere dealing with fibreglass or epoxy in bulk.
Don't use nailpolish remover. That's cellulose acetate these days, not acetone.
Go to your local chemist and when they ask you what you want it for, just tell them you use it for printed circuit manufacture. I use it for removing the etch resist after the etching process.
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Available on ebay from small bottles up to full drums. I bought a 5 litre container recently from such a source.
AWEM
hard to get hold of. Used in processing too many street drugs.
I get mine from fibreglass suppliers. But that's getting hard too.
No, the remover is acetone. The acetate is the nail polish.
Ah no .... it's very easy to get hold of, ebay, Amazon ... any boat yard, any industrial chemical outlet ... it's probably the most widely used industrial solvent.
I grant you bomb making & drugs production also uses fair quantities.
There may be acetone in it, but not much.
I got tired of paying a quid a time for tiny 50ml. bottles from a local chemist, because cleaning out the expanding foam from the nozzle of a can of foam filler uses up most of the bottle.
So I tried nail polish remover. It didn't work. At all.
You can certainly buy acetone free nail varnish remover. That does not mean acetone is not still used as nail varnish remover.
Having read so many times that nail polish remover is no longer acetone, last time partner needed some we checked. Most were substantially acetone
- but a few were not. Cannot now remember what alternative compound was/is used. But I guess that could be what you bought?
This might help.
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Maybe so, but I did explain to the pharmacist what I needed it for, and she thought it would do the job. Didn't smell much like acetone to me. More like ether, but I have a lousy sense of smell.
Are these folk any use to you?
I'm looking at the bottle right now.
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