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Default working with pure acetone in the home

On Oct 13, 10:25*pm, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On Sat, 13 Oct 2012 17:50:29 -0400, "Tomsic" wrote:
Do you have a bathroom with a tub and exhaust fan? *If so, clean the tubing
in the tub (acetone won't hurt the porcelain finish), rinse the tub when
finished and let the fan deal with the fumes.


Tomsic


So you suggest he draw the flammable fumes over the electric motor?


Bathroom fans are 100% shaded pole motors that do not have brushes to
spark. The on-off wall switch might spark, but only on turning off,
when the fumes are hopefully gone.