"Bill Woods" wrote in message
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I use METHYLATED SPIRITS as a cleaner in the home and garage. I want
to buy a couple of litres.

I use soap.

Mary

Anyone know a stockist that keeps it in the fridge as it isn't the same at
room temperature

LOL !!!

Dale

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"Bill Woods" wrote in message
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I use METHYLATED SPIRITS as a cleaner in the home and garage. I want
to buy a couple of litres.

I use soap.

Mary

In uk.d-i-y Mary Fisher wrote:

"Bill Woods" wrote in message
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I use METHYLATED SPIRITS as a cleaner in the home and garage. I want
to buy a couple of litres.

I use soap.

Now there's a helpful comment! :-)

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In uk.d-i-y Mary Fisher wrote:

"Bill Woods" wrote in message
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I use METHYLATED SPIRITS as a cleaner in the home and garage. I want
to buy a couple of litres.

I use soap.

Now there's a helpful comment! :-)

Well it's cheaper and safer than meths and very good at cleaning - that's
what it's designed for :-)

Mary

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from contains these words:

I use METHYLATED SPIRITS as a cleaner in the home and garage. I want
to buy a couple of litres.

I use soap.

Now there's a helpful comment! :-)

Made me s******!

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In uk.d-i-y Mary Fisher wrote:

wrote in message ...
In uk.d-i-y Mary Fisher wrote:

"Bill Woods" wrote in message
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I use METHYLATED SPIRITS as a cleaner in the home and garage. I want
to buy a couple of litres.

I use soap.

Now there's a helpful comment! :-)

Well it's cheaper and safer than meths and very good at cleaning - that's
what it's designed for :-)

For some things maybe but there are applications for which some sort of
alcohol is by far the best cleaning agent. I made what I thought
was a reasonable assumption that the OP had a specific cleaning
requirement that needed alcohol and that he wasn't just washing his
hands with it.

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In uk.d-i-y Mary Fisher wrote:

"Bill Woods" wrote in message
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I use METHYLATED SPIRITS as a cleaner in the home and garage. I want
to buy a couple of litres.

I use soap.

Now there's a helpful comment! :-)

Well it's cheaper and safer than meths and very good at cleaning - that's
what it's designed for :-)

Soap is a wetting agent and is not a good cleaner and it doesn't kill germs
either.
That is why soap powders have been replaced by detergents as they are far
better at cleaning.


Meths isn't very good at cleaning either, it is a solvent and you have to
keep diluting and then removing the solution.
There are better degreasers (for example) but they are a bit more dangerous
in the wrong hands.

Meths is still useful as antifreeze in the windscreen washers but it can
attack the wiper rubbers.

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"dennis@work" writes

Meths isn't very good at cleaning either, it is a solvent and you have to
keep diluting and then removing the solution.
There are better degreasers (for example) but they are a bit more dangerous
in the wrong hands.

The useful thing about alcohol-based solvents is that they are miscible
with both water and organic compounds.

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"dennis@work" writes

Meths is still useful as antifreeze in the windscreen washers

But mostly glycol

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On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 21:10:57 GMT, raden wrote:

Meths is still useful as antifreeze in the windscreen washers

But mostly glycol

Glycol in the cooling system. Methanol in the washers.

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It was somewhere outside Barstow when raden wrote:

Meths is still useful as antifreeze in the windscreen washers

But mostly glycol

Not in washers - glycol smears like crazy. It used to be used, but not
for a couple of decades.

Radiator coolant is a glycol. Either ethylene glycol in the cheap
stuff, or propylene glycol in the non-poisonous sort.

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from raden contains these words:

Meths is still useful as antifreeze in the windscreen washers

But mostly glycol

No, you don't want to put glycol in washers, it's not good for paintwork.

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Dave Liquorice wrote:

On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 21:10:57 GMT, raden wrote:


Meths is still useful as antifreeze in the windscreen washers

But mostly glycol


Glycol in the cooling system. Methanol in the washers.

I thought it was isopropyl mainly.

On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 21:37:32 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Liquorice"
wrote:

Methanol in the washers.

That is what monkeys are after when you see them sucking on the washer
nozzles in safari parks. The drivers usualy oblige with a squirt.

On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 01:23:27 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Glycol in the cooling system. Methanol in the washers.

I thought it was isopropyl mainly.

What ever, it isn't glycol which is the point. I'm not going out to
the garage to look at my container to see what particular alcohol it
has in it...

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Dave Liquorice wrote:

On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 01:23:27 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:


Glycol in the cooling system. Methanol in the washers.

I thought it was isopropyl mainly.


What ever, it isn't glycol which is the point. I'm not going out to
the garage to look at my container to see what particular alcohol it
has in it...

Actually its about the cheapest way to buy ispopropyl alcohol, which is
one of the nicest cleaners aroudn - very unaggressive -for cleaning PC
keytboards and screens etc.