Thing is, methyl seems hard to find - I mail ordered a small bottle some time ago and I'm getting low. Will denatured work in this formula? I know jewelers prefer methyl as some chems dissolve more readily in it.
How about grain alcohol (everclear)? I understand methyl is also seriously toxic, so there's a factor as well.
I'm really interested in learning more about this bleaching method and its applications. M Carter (and you others who use iodine), if you don't mind a bit of a digression, would you be so kind as to educate me a bit? I use ferricyanide alone and as a rehalogenating bleach when printing (prints are still wet) but have always etched away small black spots when spotting prints. If there's a better way, I need to learn about it.
TIA,
Doremus
You should be able to get cans of methyl alcohol at any paint supply store, home depot, or similar place.
Some places they call it methyl hydrate
I'm really interested in learning more about this bleaching method and its applications. M Carter (and you others who use iodine), if you don't mind a bit of a digression, would you be so kind as to educate me a bit? I use ferricyanide alone and as a rehalogenating bleach when printing (prints are still wet) but have always etched away small black spots when spotting prints. If there's a better way, I need to learn about it.
Here are a few online suppliers:Googling, I find lots of it available in Canada, usually as a winter product (windshield de-icer I suppose?) Amazon has some, but it's all shipped from Canada. Amazon searches return mostly denatured alcohol. Wondering if there's some reason US stores stopped carrying it, lots of threads out there (Corvette owners particularly?() looking for where to buy it.
The cool thing about this (to me anyway), is you can use it on a dry print. With a very fine brush, you can ...
It may not be common down south but HEET is methanol/methyl alcohol. ISO HEET is isoproyl alcohol. Both products prevent gas line freeze by tying up any water in your gasoline. Check with an auto supply place.
The sun for a start and yet people in the U.K. pay travel companies a fortune for just such ends. Prolonged exposure of full concentrate to the skin should be avoided, but that is also true of many things we use every day.
Not being accustomed to this very application I do not see why basic Alcohols as Methanol and Ethanol should not be substitutable by each other.
A issue though I see with additives, so one should try to get the pure stuff anyway.
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