i have a project going on ( not diesel related ) and need de-natured alcohol. where can i buy the stuff ? i looked at Target but all they have is Isopropyl and rubbing alcohol. anyone know the difference between the 3 ?? thanks guys, scott

 

Hardware store, Paint supply store, Automotive store (that carry paint).
I'm not sure of the differences.

 

Here you go:
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasc.../chem00102.htm

 

hmmm, I have some corn roasted alcohol.

 

As stated you can find it at any paint store or hardware store. Even Walmart should have it. Shellac based paints are thinned and cleaned up with it. It's also great for cleaning up latex paint. It'll distort plastic though so be careful.

 

HOME DEsPOT has it in 1qt & 1gal cans, right next to the 1gal cans of Acetone, Mineral spirits and Lacquer Thinner in the paint department.

Rubbing alky IS isopropyl alcolhol but diluted with water down to somewhere's between 40 and 70% concentration.

Denatured Alcohol is Ethyl alcohol but has had some real "nasties" placed in it to prevent it from ever being drinkable , or even re-distillable into drinkable ethyl alcohol .
Sometimes it's the denaturing solvents used that can cause problems with plastic softening that pure ETOH won't cause.


Whatcha' doin? Refinishing old Stradivarius fiddles?

K.

 

I'm glad I'm not the only one who calls it that.

 

I don't follow? I've been used to calling it Home Cheapo.

 

Yeah, I've called it "Despot" for quite a while..
I have more contempt for them after last week..
I went to buy a cheap, plain 3" cast aluminum V-belt sheave like used on a TABLE SAW... " Sorry sir,... We are a HOME IMPROVEMENT CENTER, not a Hardware store"... Yeah right...
They appear to uniquely tailor their product lines to exactly compete with Lowes.. If they carry an item (or formerly carried, like sheaves) that Lowes deems not to carry, they likewise drop it.
Sure enough, Ace Hardware had them.... Same brand that Home Despot formerly carried...

K.

 

Don't even get me started on home depot. I'm so sick of driving across town to pick up a standard everyday item that they are out of. Before they built one in town I had to drive out of town. I had to drive 7 different times to pick up one item. They kept calling me to tell me it was in then when I got there they couldn't find it or it was damaged or blah blah blah. I finally cancelled the order and they just couldn't understand why....lets see $20 in fuel per trip and 2 hours per trip out of my day times 7 trips. They have good prices on some items but I still buy at the mom and pop store most of the time. Just as an example a standard 5/8 inch OD pipe flange at home depot is $1.49 and is in shrink wrapped plastic that you can't get it out of to save your life. Half of the time they are bent by the time you get them out. The mom and pop shop has them for 45 cents and they are loose not wrapped. And they call it progress. Ok I'm gonna sit down with a beer and try to get my blood pressure back to normal.

 

I have no idea where you live. But if you have a M&P hardware store that you can go to, I will lift my hat too you. And that is a compliment as I do not have a hat too lift. I live in a kind of a small town and EVERY one of the small town M&P hardware store's were forced out of business.

Just a fond memory. But when was the last time anyone has gone hunting for a bolt, hoe handle, or a thinga-ma-jiggy and the person you were talking too said "I have one of those I think, let's go look" ? And then when you followed the ol' guy down a small, cramped, packed to the rafters, stuff laying in the way that he would say "careful of that", and say as he takes down a box, "This What Ya Lookin Fer?"



I am with you on this. I am sitting down with a barley pop now as I send this reply. Although the beer might not be all that good of a thing to help lower the BP. But we will not tell our Dr's will we?

 

i've beer

 

Ahh, the good old mom-&-pop, honest-to-goodness HARDware store like where my grandfather would take me on Saturdays. He would catch up with all the goings on in the world with the proprietor and the other patrons, while I browsed the aisles and dusty cabinets stuffed full of cool things like BB gun repair kits and water well tank air regulators and Case Knife displays, brass check valves & iron water pipe, strangely shaped hand tools, and electrical fuseboxes, huge revolving bins full of galvanized nails, woodscrews and bolts(sold by the POUND), fence charger batteries(with handles!), cast iron and cast aluminum V-belt pulleys, sawblades, metal drawers with tiny setscrews and keystock, etc... Things that uniquely enthralled an inquisitive young boy.
Old, dark, rough finished oak floors that creaked as you walked on them. Big store windows that faced out on 2 sides of the outside street corner, diagonally opposite of the court house on the town square... 12' high pressed tin ceilings with some lightly humming art-deco looking fluorescent fixtures, complete with a few odd colored bulbs that cast a sickly blue/greenish pall over the merchandise towards the back of the store.

This image will forever be etched in my mind of what a REAL hardware store was... All else has fallen way short...

My gosh we have sure come out of the dark ages haven't we...???


K.

 

The denatured alchol should be easy to find. What are you going to use it for? There are a lot of different denaturents. Some might not work with what you want to use it for. You should be able to find the information, if it matters in your project.

 

Your hardware store had flourescent lights? You must be from the big city.

But yes, just what you posted was what I was thinking also. But you missed the many boxs of stuff that a boy at a young age had no idea of what it was. And too this day I still do not think I know what all that stuff was. What makes it worse is half of what was stocked in a hardware store was for something not made for well over 50yrs, but held onto just in case Ol' farmer Joe came in and said "I broke my adze again and need to fix it before momma finds out".