On Mon, 21 Nov 2016 11:17:06 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton wrote:

Ok, but I still don't understand why you're adamant about doing the
solvent phase indoors. Is it too cold out where you live?

What are most household chemicals?
They're just *diluted* versions of chemicals.
Right?

For example, what's household bleach?
It's just diluted bleach.

What is nail polish remover?
It's just pretty smelling diluted acetone or ethyl acetate.

What is rubbing alcohol?
It's just vastly diluted isopropyl alcohol.

Why not just use the concentrate?
Concentrated pool bleach is what I use in my washing machine.
Concentrated muriatic acid is what I use in my toilet bowl.
Pure acetone is what my kids use for removing nail polish.

So, currently, I use the "concentrated" goo remover outside, which works
fine as gasoline melts virtually all food jar label goop, and what gasoline
doesn't melt, the acetone generally does.

While I use most of my chemicals in the concentrated form, gasoline stinks
and is flammable so I want to simply dilute the gasoline so that it (a)
doesn't stink as much and so that it (b) isn't as flammable.

If that were easy to do, I never would have asked.
BTW, I'm sure it's doable - simply because I can dilute with petroleum
distiallates. I just don't happen to have cans of petroleum distillates
lying around.

I suspect the gasoline works almost as well at 1/10th its original
concentration, as gasoline is just petroleum distillates anyway, which is
what most "spirits" are.