Isopropyl Alcohol

[gemfyre]

Where the hell does one buy 99% percent Isopropyl Alcohol??

We need some at work to clean the printer, nowhere seems to stock it, even in weaker dilutions and even labelled as Surgical Spirits.

My co-worker went out to get some, and after ringing and confirming that methylated spirits was not the same thing, bought back Chlorohexidine Scrub. The mind boggles.

ETA : After some research I discovered that Dick Smith's sells 99% Isopropyl Alcohol - labeled as head cleaner for tapes. We got some, I cleaned the printer, and it's all good!

Comments

[riverstar.livejournal.com]

surgical spirts....try a chemist, yhey use it often on newley periced ears
or at least they did way back when i was 10:)

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

See that's what I thought. And Surgical Spirits IS Isopropyl alcohol. But I looked in multiple chemists and supermarkets and couldn't find it!!

In the end the proper stuff turned out to be head cleaning fluid that you can buy from Dick Smith's. 99% pure and it did the trick.

[japester.livejournal.com]

Lens cleaning solution, and white board cleaner are also isopropyl alchohol. I know where I got my last lot from, but that was some years ago, and they obtained it by the pallet load ...

[ducts.livejournal.com]

Also sold in Jaycar, Altronics, Bunnings... Confusingly labelled as "Isopropyl alchohol".

[japester.livejournal.com]

I saw that yesterday, when I was in a Jaycar, and was pleasantly surprised.
In conveniently different sized bottles too.

[glittery-girl.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm, not sure where you'd buy it, but I have some on my desk at work! Our manufacturing plant use it in all the filling rooms to sanitise gloved hands and any transient items. I swiped a bottle to clean my keyboard. (and because I'm a geek and the smell reminds me of when I worked in the micro lab)
Chlorihexidine scrub would make sense if you were trying to sanitise something...but clean a printer?!