Anyone have a spare Apple IIgs power supply?

[Charles]

everyday all the time smartypants

On Dec 12, 2014, at 4:03 PM, Sean Caron <scaron at umich.edu> wrote:

> I thought he was joking? I hope nobody would use acetone! LOL
> 
> Best,
> 
> Sean
> 
> 
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Tothwolf <tothwolf at concentric.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 12 Dec 2014, Charles wrote:
>> 
>>> On Dec 12, 2014, at 11:44 AM, Peter Corlett <abuse at cabal.org.uk> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 10:15:28AM -0500, Sean Caron wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I'm not sure what the formulation was in the past but denatured alcohol
>>>>> nowadays is just ethanol with maybe 5-10% methanol added. You definitely
>>>>> shouldn't be drinking it (in vivo, methanol is metabolized to formaldehyde
>>>>> via oxidative reduction - formaldehyde attacks the optic nerve - which is
>>>>> why drinking wood methanol makes you go blind) but other than that, I
>>>>> wouldn't say it's particularly more harmful to you, boards or components
>>>>> than isopropanol is. You wouldn't want to drink that, either!
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Wikpedia references EU Regulation 162/2013, which gives the various
>>>> recipes
>>>> across the EU:
>>>> http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=
>>>> OJ:L:2013:049:0055:0061:EN:PDF
>>>> 
>>>> Taking a random sample from a few different countries, the basic recipe
>>>> seems to be 1% mixed crud to make it unpalatable, up to 10% methanol, and
>>>> the rest ethanol.  The ethanol and methanol will evaporate readily enough,
>>>> but I'd be somewhat concerned about residue left from non-volatile
>>>> components of the 1%.
>>>> 
>>>> It's not like isopropanol is terribly expensive or difficult to get hold
>>>> of.  I can order ten litres of it from Amazon £28.66 with free delivery.
>>>> If anything, it seems to be slightly cheaper than meths.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> just just acetone… it works the best anyways.
>>> 
>> 
>> Sure...if you want to dissolve the epoxy substrate, any number of plastic
>> or rubber-like compounds (capacitor end seals, anyone?), or the enamel
>> coating on magnet wire...
>>