Trying to find denatured alcohol .Can not find
anyone who carries it.Asked in a pharmacy and they never heard of it???
Ace hardware, Lowes, Home Depot..It will be in the paint department most likely with thinners, etc...
John
I buy mine at Lowes. It's great for removing glue residue.
Hardware store or paint store.
I believe Wallyworld carries it in the paint section.
GLENN
Go to any hardware store. Its used as a paint thinner and such, not pharmaceutical
The way I understand it is they "denature"(add non-ingestable chemicals)to grain alcohol so it can be sold unlicensed.... Phil
Denatured alcohol is ethanol made undrinkable. Is there a reason you specifically need denatured?
Go to Lowes or a camping store and get stove alcohol. Also, paint thinner solvent alcohol is denatured.
I just learned something i didn't know. that home depot has everything.
I get mine at ACE Hardware and Sears Hardware.
What are you using it for?
There may be other alcohols that would work well for your needs that are easier to find. Also, there are umpteen different formulations of denatured Ethanol.
I might be able to set you up with some.
I have isopropanol, Methanol, and one form of denatured ethanol in 55gal drums.
What do you use for alcohol burners???
I use methanol in a metal top from a Hoppes solvent bottle.
I would think denatured or methanol would work fine.
We sell methanol for $5.75/16oz. I could put some denatured or methanol in a bottle for you.
As you know the shipping kills. I can give you the alcohol, but shipping would cost around $9 (certified box etc) or more if it has to go to a residental address. It needs to be shipped UPS as it's flammable.
Let me know.
Would denatured work ok??I tried just rubbing alcohol but doesn,t hold a flame.......
Rubbing alcohol has to be 90% to burn...denatured gives a stronger flame and I clean my shafts with it before fletching as it leaves no residue.
sherman williams has it as well
look at the car products called "Heet". They have methanol and ethanol versions if I recall correctly
ChuckC
Use stove alcohol (aka "Camping Alcohol"). Rubbing alcohol is 50% water. For a lamp 91% isopropyl from a drug store will work, but the stove alcohol will be 60% cheaper. You can also burn paint-store type solvent alcohol.
Heet in the yellow bottles is ethanol - use this for burners.
Heet in the red bottle is methanol - don't use this for burners if you're in any kind of shelter at all, it'll give off toxins as it burns.
For large scale Ethanol/denatured alcohol almost every wallyworld and hardware store out there has a product called SLX in the paint thinner aisle - that's denatured alcohol.
Rubbing alcohol has water in it, will cause spitting and other issues unless it's above 90%.
I got my denatured alcohol at true value hardware, its by the paint thinners. It is what i use in my alcohol burner and works great.
The glass bottle(stove) with wick sold at 3-Rivers calls for denatured alcohol. I use it instead of a torch for melting hot glue. Works like a charm. I buy the denatured alcohol at True value hardware but most hardware/paint stores should carry it.
I found out the hard way, back in the 80's, when I bought a burner from 3 rivers. They said to get Alcohol from the drug store. I did, and it didn't....burn that is!
My wife's uncle, a mechanic since birth, said I needed, Denature Alcohol. He said when he was in the Service in Korea, they had stoves which they used it in. Burns clean and hot! Yep, it worked!
At the time, Hooks Drug store, didn't have the higher content of Ispropyl available! Now I have seen higher content, as of late, 80%, which will burn.
I use denatured alcohol in my burner. I was in the same boat a few years ago, I did not know where to buy it. I was in Home Depot buying paint supply's when I seen a can on the shelf next to the thinners.
I purchased a gallon a number of years ago at a place called Far West Paints. I have seen it in quart cans in Home Depot and other hardware stored in the paint thinner section, but I use it for so many things it was cheaper to buy a gallon.
RonP
Please note that rubbing alcohol has mineral oil in it.Don't use it for anything except rubbing. Frank
De-natured alcohol will work in a stove.
Over in the UK i use metholated spirits (probably got a different name over there)but could'nt find anything like it in Colorado.
I tried de-natured alcohol and it worked fine.