James,
The following was taken from a forum at www.taxidermy.net that I found
running a google search. If you can't find it at a hardware, paint or home
improvement store maybe your chemists can recognize it by the chemical
makeup. I've used the stuff for years for a variety of cleaning jobs other
than on cameras but was surprised to find it has applications in
taxidermy. Maybe it'd help preserve the aging OM equipment. A quick
search found several Material Safety Data Sheets that listed various
additives but Ethyl Alcohol and Methyl Alcohol seem to be the key ones.
"Denatured alcohol is just grain alcohol (Ethanol) to which ingredients are
added to make it toxic and to exempt it from ATF controls and liquor taxes.
The composition of Denatured Alcohol is:
82.9 0.000000E+00thanol (Ethyl Alcohol)
00.2 0.000000E+00thylacetate
16.4% Methanol (Methyl alcohol)
00.5% MEK
The poisonous additive is the Methanol and the other ingredients are
stabilizers. So, you see, Denatured alcohol is just a combination of grain
(ethanol) wood (methanol) alcohols thus rendering the argument over which
to use rather moot."
Gary
< This message was delivered via the Olympus Mailing List >
< For questions, mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >
< Web Page: http://Zuiko.sls.bc.ca/swright/olympuslist.html >
|