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Davide

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Originally Posted by Rob Morley

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I suppose we might have expected a DIY Banter contributor to
advocate leaving petrol-soaked rags lying around the house ...[//color]

Why does that appear to be HTML? Where's the attribution, and indent to
indicate quoting?

And I suppose we may expect someone like you to play with matches
around them... no matter where you post from.

Do you really think that petrol vapour will only ignite if you purposely
apply a flame to it?

Aren't you the one that suggested using acetone? And you assume that is
safer?

I didn't say anything about leaving rags soaked in volatile and
potentially explosive solvents lying around anywhere.

Taking your points in turn:

1. No, I do not think petrol will only ignite if you apply a naked flame to it, although you do need some form of energy applied to begin ignition (you choose - a laser beam, microwaves, electrical spark, ...). If you choose to be sarcastic, expect sarcasm in return. FYI, acetone has a lower ignition energy, and a lower vapour tension at 20C than isooctane. It also has a lower vapour density, facilitating mixing with air to form explosive mixtures.

2. Did I say anything about lying around? I said to leave the solvent in contract with the adhesive for a time, not to leave it unsupervised. Having just stripped three rooms (~70m2 / 770ft2) in my house in a very similar situation to that described by the OP, I can assure you that with some adhesives you either need huge quantities of solvents - which is a risk in its own right, unless you hire air filtering equipment, or you need to leave them to soak for a long(ish) time. If you have a different, viable and safer suggestion for leaving (dangerous) solvents in contact with the adhesive for a sufficient time for the solvent to work, please let's hear it. I'd be glad to use it on the next floor!

3. The HTML appeared in the post because I edited it after posting and there seems to be a bug in the DYIbanter editing engine that interprets HTML tags as text in edited posts; if you don't like people posting using web-based engines, go read somewhere else that is only accessible to people using "proper" newsreaders, or ask DIYbanter to close their own site.

I don't think I can indent using the DIYbanter site - FYI, your quotes do not appear as indented either, there. I try reasonably hard to follow threading and posting etiquette, but as the posting engine on DIYbanter produces what I find "unwieldy" quotes (see this post as an example), I try to snip as much as possible and quote other posters in different colours within the message; given the mess that others make by not snipping, having incorrectly tagged/indented replies etc., I am finding this objection fairly picky. Do you have a suggestion for a good newsreader?