Getting hold of isopropanol

[Droopy Dick]

My Ultimate monitors are getting gummed-up again. And the little tool they send you to uck out the damned things is about as much use as a chocolate teapot.

Chum of mine said the best way he'd sorted it was to warm them at 60 degrees in an over for 15 mins, the to use warm isopropanol to flush out any melted or softened earwax.

He says it does no harm to the transducer thingies.

Anyway, I went round four chemists this afternoon to try to get hold of 100ml of isopropanol, a 5ml syringe and fine hypodermic needle.

You'd have thought I'd been asking for heroin!

So, question is, where can I get a small amount of isopropanol - I have no need of a 10l drum. Syringe and needle I'll get from my GP surgery.

 

[alimey4u2]

EAR TIS......

 

[Gas'd Off]

Try your local pharmacy and ask for 'Isopropyl Alchohol' I think that will do what you need. It's an industrial alchohol that evaporates completely and comes in 600ml bottles. It's great for cleaning brakes aswell. I always have some in my consumables box. Be pushy in the pharmacy or they will try and fob you off thinking you're going to drink it Tell them it's for your brakes

 

[oblertone]

If I remember correctly ...

... isopropanol and Isopropyl Alchohol are one and the same thing; just different naming systems

 

[alimey4u2]

Conundrum answered here.......

 

[Andy Michael]

Where I work we have about 50 galls bulk of the stuff it's pretty usefull too.

 

[AlanAce1967]

Me too, i have 50 litres of the stuff available, we use it for cleaning semen off machinery !!!

 

[alimey4u2]

Me too, i have 50 litres of the stuff available, we use it for cleaning semen off machinery !!!

 

[Droopy Dick]

Me too, i have 50 litres of the stuff available, we use it for cleaning semen off machinery !!!

I dread to ask .......

 

[Droopy Dick]

Try your local pharmacy and ask for 'Isopropyl Alchohol' I think that will do what you need. It's an industrial alchohol that evaporates completely and comes in 600ml bottles. It's great for cleaning brakes aswell. I always have some in my consumables box. Be pushy in the pharmacy or they will try and fob you off thinking you're going to drink it Tell them it's for your brakes

Ah, the pharmacist at Tesco came and told me they no longer sell isopropanol and suggested local independent chemists.

Perhaps I wrongly assumed that a pharmacist would know that isopropanol IS isopropyl alcohol - after all, most have done A-level chemistry and even in today's parlous state of A-levels one would assume that simple naming conventions are taught.

Mind you, she also told me she couldn't sell me a small syringe and needle, either.

 

[Bigtwin]

I buy it in spray cans from out local geeks' electrical component shop. About £4.50 for a large one (missus).

 

[csd4t]

Also know as IPA, maplins sell it

 

[Droopy Dick]

Also know as IPA, maplins sell it

Ah-Ha!!!!

Do they now?

Then I shall pop over there tomorrow.

Many thanks.

 

[Mick O'Malley]

Droopy

I think this is the same stuff.

Regards, Mick

 

[(RIP) Bin Ridin]

Great for cleaning the spectacles!
Meths from local chemist, after a bit of explaining, no Iwon't be sucking it through a white sliced pan or whatever.

 

[trotsky]

Great for cleaning the spectacles!
Meths from local chemist, after a bit of explaining, no Iwon't be sucking it through a white sliced pan or whatever.

"...white sliced bread..." (makes notes, adds to "useful things to remember in case of emergencies" list).

Isopropanol is also the stuff they sell as record and video cleaner in HMV and similar shops - little plastic bottles with a microfibre cloth or such gadget - try them if you struggle to get it from the chemist, or the local photographic emporium sometimes carries it. Tends to come in 25ml bottles though, so you pay proportionally more per millilitre.

 

[Gas'd Off]

I just bought a 600ml bottle at Tesco's pharmacy. So they are talking pants when then say they don't DO It any more. I did have to order it though