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By way of clarification, meths or methylated spirit is not methanol. It’s mostly ethanol with some poisonous additives and colourants to make it unpalatable to drink. 

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On 1/2/2020 at 4:39 PM, stillp said:

One of which is methanol!

Pete

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As a student on a Denmark secondment, o stayed in student flats with engineering and chemistry colleagues.   They bought the adulterated ethanol sold by pharmacies, and removed the bitter stuff by column chromatography!  

John

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3 hours ago, stillp said:

One of which is methanol!

Pete

Well yes, hence methylated, but it's hardly mostly methanol.  In fact IIRC from when I was a lab tech it's >99% ethyl alcohol.

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Paraffin is cheaper for large objects. Brake cleaner is an alternative.  I use IPA for more delicate work. 
 

If your supplier was giving you >5% methanol you were done Pete. 

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This thread was discussing cleaning out a clutch hydraulic system and the subject drift is now liable to cause confusion. Surely you are not advocating the use of paraffin for that are you Pete?

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