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  • Which solvent to dilute Tippex?

    From Loopi@21:1/5 to All on Wed Apr 14 15:15:02 2021
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    Not just good old days - innovative - it is excellent for marking leather (equine tack) anhd plastic and anything too dark to take coki pen
    , and I find comes off - usuing some of these great ideas posted!

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  • From Brian Gaff (Sofa)@21:1/5 to All on Wed Apr 14 16:21:31 2021
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    Eh?
    Its acetone by the way.
    Brian

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    Not just good old days - innovative - it is excellent for marking leather (equine tack) anhd plastic and anything too dark to take coki pen
    , and I find comes off - usuing some of these great ideas posted!

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  • From NY@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Apr 14 17:24:37 2021
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    I don't think it is acetone - that's nail varnish remover. Tippex is some
    sort of chloro organic solvent.

    Ah, Wikipedia says that it was originally 1,1,1-trichloroethane but that was too toxic for solvent sniffers, so they now use "an aliphatic hydrocarbon" (without being specific).

    I never really liked the smell of Tippex. Much better for snorting is the solvent used by Banda spirit duplication - propanol probably - when the
    copies are freshly duplicated and handed out in class at school.



    "Brian Gaff (Sofa)" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:s5719u$qd6$[email protected]...
    Eh?
    Its acetone by the way.
    Brian

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    "Loopi" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:1675c252e41e6802$1$2274648$[email protected]...
    Not just good old days - innovative - it is excellent for marking leather
    (equine tack) anhd plastic and anything too dark to take coki pen
    , and I find comes off - usuing some of these great ideas posted!

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  • From Max Demian@21:1/5 to All on Wed Apr 14 17:29:47 2021
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    On 14/04/2021 16:21, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:

    Its acetone by the way.

    A 14-year-old post. I expect the solvents have changed several times.
    You used to be able to get Tippex thinners until teenagers started
    sniffing it. Why can't we buy anything we like as long as we sign a form saying, "I don't care how many kids die from misusing this (solvent,
    glue &c.)"?

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  • From Fredxx@21:1/5 to All on Thu Apr 15 01:20:55 2021
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    On 14/04/2021 16:21, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
    Eh?
    Its acetone by the way.
    Brian

    It's been water based for a while, so probably acrylic. Acetone,
    Isopropyl Alcohol and Meths can dissolve acrylic paints so it might do
    the trick here.

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  • From david starbuck@21:1/5 to Fredxx on Sun Aug 22 07:06:39 2021
    On Thursday, 15 April 2021 at 01:20:56 UTC+1, Fredxx wrote:
    On 14/04/2021 16:21, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
    Eh?
    Its acetone by the way.
    Brian
    It's been water based for a while, so probably acrylic. Acetone,
    Isopropyl Alcohol and Meths can dissolve acrylic paints so it might do
    the trick here.
    IPA does not work. Not sure about using Meths due to it being coloured blue. Has anyone tried paraffin? I might experiment. In old days (25 years ago) I had a good supply of 1,1,1 trichlroethane (commercially Chlorothene) and before that 1,1,1 trichloroethylene ("trike"), so Tipp-Ex thinning was easy as they used to former
    solvent - and declared it on their bottles.

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