In article , mm wrote:
On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 22:53:20 GMT, (Doug Miller)
wrote:
In article , "miamicuse"
wrote:
It dries quick and I was not able to clean things off fast enough before it.
I have been working at it for the last four hours and it's not getting
anywhere. I tried water, alcohol, mineral spirits and other solvents.
Alcohol -- but not rubbing alcohol from the drugstore (too much water in
that). You want denatured alcohol (probably a gallon can) from Home Depot,
Lowe's, or some place like that -- it's pure alcohol.
Not
sure if any of it combined with Shellac will be poisonous,
Nope. Shellac is non-toxic. It's the classic kid-safe finish for baby toys,
cribs, etc.
The *alcohol* is another story, though. The alcohol used to dissolve shellac
is the same alcohol that's in adult beverages, and you *can* become
NO IT'S NOT THE SAME, and the ALCOHOL THAT YOU BUY IN GALLONS WILL
KILL YOU, or BLIND YOU FIRST.
AT LEAST ACCORDING TO MY PH.D. IN BIOLOGY ROOMMATE.
You missed the point entirely, and you don't have your facts completely right.
First the facts:
Beverage alcohol is ethanol. Denatured alcohol from the hardware store is
*also* ethanol, with a small amount of methanol and/or other toxic substances
added to make it undrinkable. Apart from the addition of the toxins, it *is*
exactly the same stuff, and you *can* become drunk from breathing its vapor.
Now the missed point:
I was warning the guy that the stuff is potentially dangerous.
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Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)
It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.