Egremont wrote:

According to the news, the bombs used in London were constructed from
chemicals obtainable from high street Chemists.

Well, of late I've tried to get stuff like ammonia for cleaning

smelling salts, or use caustic, or try a wood finishing place.

and, more
optomistically, dilute HCL for de-scaling and just got a look of bemusement
from behind the counter.

brick acid, fernox, tesco bog cleaner

I came to the conclusion that the old fashioned
Chemist doesn't exist any more -they are now Pharamacies selling drugs, cold
cures and the like but not household chemicals.

Does some Chemists actually still sell old-fashioned cleaning agents, meths,

rubbing alcohol, surgical spirit, rectified etc, tape head cleaner, all
similar but not same. Try a paint shop for real meths


paraffin,

sold at gararges. aka lamp oil

ammonia and the like thesedays?.

just a case of knowing whats what. Its not labelled as obviously as it
used to be, and most products are now proprietary mixes rather than
single chems, and one tends to have to get this here, that there etc.
Theres not the demand for those kind of things there once was. Guess
bom making just isnt as fashionable now. It used to be a popular sport
among teenagers.


NT