bloody rain

Used to be trichloroethylene 1.1.1 but that was found to be skinrotting
stuff (didn't do much good to other parts either) now its a relative of
that but supposedly less disruptive to the genetic bits.

Afaik, that's still the same.

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Dave

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Isn't that more commonly known as Tippex Thinner?

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, SteveH said:

Don't think so. We used Trichloroethylene in the dry cleaners I worked
at for three years, It took over from Perchloroethylene after the latter
was deemed a hazard in the industry. Anyway, the smell is different

 

I'm sure it _used_ to be Tippex Thinner before they got all namby-pamby
and produced the water soluble stuff.

My organic chemistry books [1] are in the garage at the moment, so can't
check.

[1] McMurray, etc.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, SteveH said:

All I can tell you is the smell is different. When I went to school....
Oh yeahhh, *the* tippex thinner - that smelt fucking awful. I know what
you mean now, it was the "Liquid paper" brand that gave you a buzz ;-)

Yeah, do. I'd be interested in finding out. It actually smells (smelt)
like Perc but it was so long ago..

We used to have "Prennet" chemicals as well for getting chewing gum out
of clothes and stuff. Fooking ace it was

By strange co-incidence, that was the name of my boss.

 

Yup, the _real_ Tippex Thinner. Always taught it was the same stuff as
dry cleaning fluid.

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?f=48&h=0&t=62393

Seems to suggest this is the case.

I'll have a look next time I go in there. Unfortunately, I'm back off to
Hereford in the morning (well, about 5 hours time, actually) so it'll be
a few days yet.

Heh. ISTR every lecture I went to told me to refer to 'McMurray'

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, SteveH said:

I've not bothered to read the site TBH but if it was dry cleaning fluid
dolled up as Tippex thinner, it wouldn't surprise me it worked. That
stuff could melt paint, dried on varnish etc.

Cleaning the "still" out in the morning (the tank at the bottom of the
machine where all the crap was left behind after the cleaning fluid was
distilled back into the main tanks again) was great. You'd open the
hatch (like a submarine hatch) and you could see the vapour pour out and
cover the floor.

No problemo. I was just curious. IIRC, the Tippex thinner had a more
dusty aroma though.

 

yeah, I've remembered now - car it is.

 

<snip>

My very first job (in 197*) was in large insurance office.
The cardinal sin was to rack up a large stack of used plastic beverage cups
on your desk, rather than binning them.
The way to enforce this issue was to empty about half a bottle of Liquid
Paper thinners into the top cup of such a stack without the perpetrators
knowledge.
Over the course of the day it would eat its way through all the cups till it
got the bottom, by which time around a cupful of cold tea / coffee /
thinners would, without warning, suddenly make it's presence known by
flooding the misquient's desk.

Oh how we laughed.....

--
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My Bike 2000 Honda CB500
M'boy's Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X

BOTAFOT #140, DIAABTCOD #26

 

Spete wrote:

How is Monz, and what is he ridig these days?

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My Bike 2000 Honda CB500
M'boy's Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X

BOTAFOT #140, DIAABTCOD #26

 

XJR13 IIRC

 

The message <>

I think Tippex used to use carbon tetrachloride, but hasn't for many a year.

And I think carbon tet was used before that. We'll be back to treading
washing in fuller's earth soon.

 

He seems well enough to have bought me a pint at the black horse
yesterday, and he's now riding a GSX1400.

 

Monz is fine, a bit of a limp from time to time, but otherwise no probs.
He's riding a GSX1400. Of course he needed to trick it up a bit with
replacing the standard exhausts with a full Akrapovic exhaust system. And
he's lost a bit of weight. You'll probably be able to view him in all his
glory on the BOSM.

--
Spete
www.gimmemoney.mine.nu
www.spete.homeip.net

Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side and a dark
side, and it holds the universe together.

 

Yes, tippex thinner was (and now presumably is not?) 1.1.1
trichloroethylene.

 

[Snip]

Isopropyl alcohol is sold as audio gubbins cleaning liquid (or at least it
was, it's been years since I played with chemicals).

What might be worth considering is that when you buy one of those tiny
little bottles that it comes in you pay zillions of quids per litre for it,
whereas if you ask your local pharmacist nicely to get a bottle of it for
you they will after questioning you as to what you want it for sell it to
you for ****-all pound fifty per litre.

Depends how much of it you expect to get through I suppose; I used to go
through bucketloads of the stuff what with millions of tape drives 'n that
to look after.

HTH.

 

I got mine back this week and it only had the CD10/3 points on it.

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that's very interesting, actually.

So, I guess that means you only have to tell your insurers about
having a CD10 on your licence?

Though I guess the weighting for CD10+SP50 isn't any different anyway.

 

I'd already told them about both having three points but their
'statement of fact' came back with a 0 points against the SP50. I'm
guessing you also got the yellow slip from the court?

didnt make any difference to my policy having either added.

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Most high street pharmacists these days don't want/can't be arsed with
the loose chemical side of things any more.

It would be easier to just phone up a chemical wholesale supplier. Doing
the biodiesel, I've been ordering 200l drums of methanol, for example.
Once I mentioned what I was using it for, down came a truck with it next
day.

The same supplier would be quite happy to send me 5, 10, or 200l of
isopropyl alcohol if I needed it.


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Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10