Jethro wrote:

It wasn't they wouldn't sell it to me. They claimed they *could*n''t
stock it, as it was "banned". The same story I got from a local
chemists too, strangely enough. I was very tempted to take my two tins
into them, and offer to supply them myself !

ATEOTD, I think it's a symptom of the changing landscape of society.
When I was growing up, and into science, all my books suggested your
"local chemist" as a source of various chemicals ... ammonia, various
crystals, formaldehyde ... and the chemist was just that.

Now they just shift boxes :-(

I forgot to say, IPA is/was used to clean the glass on cockpit
instruments when I was working.

Dave