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10-23-2007, 06:22 PM
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#1 | | Too school for cool Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 36 Location: England's oldest recorded town Collection Count: MP, Alts, BT, Kiss, Classics, Movie, Reissues & G1 - 61 | UK equivalent of rubbing alcohol
I know this might already be on the boards somewhere, but I'm a UK member and, over here, as far as I know, we don't have the same rubbing alcohol readily available that everyone suggests is best for removing paint.
Does anyone out there know what the UK equivalent might be?
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10-23-2007, 06:26 PM
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#2 | | Reprolabels.com Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 506 Location: Ontario News Credits: 2 | Isopropyl alcohol, isopropanol, "iso", IPA... all mean the same thing. | |
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10-24-2007, 11:51 AM
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#3 | | is the meat Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 5,701 Location: Manchester, UK Collection Count: 345 and counting News Credits: 11 | Very hard to find over here... I've still not found any. My fiance's dad works in an engineering firm and he got me some isopropyl alcohol but doesn't seem to work, so I wonder if it's a different chemical formula or summat. | |
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10-24-2007, 03:31 PM
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#4 | | Herald of Unicron Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 2,787 Location: BC, Canada | Can't be. Isopropyl alcohol is isopropyl alcohol, there's no "other formulas". Different concentrations, on the other hand, is a distinct possibility. Or maybe you're just applying it to something that rubbing alcohol doesn't clean off properly (like paint on clear parts), or you're not being patient enough. It's not instant. Usually you soak the parts overnight and scrub the paint off later.
I'm surprised it's that hard to find. It's a regular household cleaner. | |
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10-24-2007, 03:39 PM
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#5 | | I want... ROOM SERVICE!! Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 2,769 Location: Calgary News Credits: 1 | Quick search for isopropyl alcohol uk indicates that it is indeed not easy to find. Try an electronics supply store, it's sold as a cleaning solvent there apparently. | |
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10-24-2007, 03:49 PM
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#6 | | is the meat Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 5,701 Location: Manchester, UK Collection Count: 345 and counting News Credits: 11 | Quote:
Originally Posted by Phy  Quick search for isopropyl alcohol uk indicates that it is indeed not easy to find. Try an electronics supply store, it's sold as a cleaning solvent there apparently. | Yeah that's the thing I got. 99.7% according to the can. Left part of classics Jetfire soaking in it for 24hrs, didn't shift a bit... | |
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10-24-2007, 04:44 PM
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#7 | | Dai Gurren-Dan member Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 986 Location: Comfortably nuzzled between Yoko's boobs (Las Cruces, NM) Collection Count: 921 News Credits: 4 | The paint on Classics Jetfire is notoriously hard to get rid of anyway,so it's not the alcohol that's the problem.
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10-24-2007, 04:55 PM
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#8 | | Wot's the word, word up! Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 1,691 Location: Louisville, KY Collection Count: 2000 | Some of the paints indeed seem to be "harder" than other formulas. The standard paint on most action figures is apparantly acrylics made with an isopropyl alcohol medium (for near-instant drying in factories, natch) which is why it dissolves in the same stuff so easily. But some of the paints seem to be other types of acrylics, with mediums that are not so easy to replicate. 
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