Denatured Alcohol Shortage?

[MikeWi]

Living may cause cancer.

 

[RJSakowski]

Denatured alcohol is available at Menards, a regional DIY in the upper Midwest. At $13.36 a gallon, it is roughly double what I paid in 2020 but then almost everything has doubled in price. https://www.menards.com/main/paint/...hol-thinner/834g1/p-1444444212510-c-19345.htm

My preferred solvents for degreasing are acetone or 99% isopropyl alcohol or lacquer thinner. I have a gallon of MEK but I don't particularly like the odor so I seldom use it. Depending on use, I will also use mineral spirits, aka paint thinner, followed by an acetone rinse if a dry surface is desired. For heavy duty automotive or farm degreasing, I still use gasoline. It works well and is less expensive than other solvents.

All of the above mentioned solvents are currently available at Menards.

 

[RJSakowski]

Living may cause cancer.

100% of cancer victims were previously alive.

 

[ddickey]

You can still buy MEK at Menards.

 

[Janderso]

Shortage? You're lucky, at least you can still buy it. It was banned for sale here years ago, mineral spirits too. Luckily I was able to find ways to get it without having to drive out of state. I stocked up right before the pandemic hit. Perfect timing too cause I got it for pretty cheap & prices sky rocketed (where you could buy it) cause people were trying to make their own hand sanitizer with it.

Me too. I found a gallon of it in a hardware store in a rural town. They had one left. The can had rust on the top.
It’s too bad we can’t buy it here.

 

[Janderso]

You can still buy MEK at Menards.

I use to spend hours in a closed, climate controlled room running a pad press when I was in the baseball business.
We had 55 gallon drums of MEK and Triclorethane 111.
The solvents were used to clean the etched plates and to thin the ink.
This was in the early 80’s.
Any four color printing press operator had MEK fumes in his work environment

 

[matthewsx]

Work safe no matter what you do, your family depends on it....

John

 

[darkzero]

Me too. I found a gallon of it in a hardware store in a rural town. They had one left. The can had rust on the top.
It’s too bad we can’t buy it here.

Nice! Some people have told me you currently might be able to still find it at camping stores. It's also sold/used as stove fuel. But I had no luck finding it even back when they first banned it.

 

[Ken from ontario]

There's smoke free fuel that goes by the name "Bio Flame" it is Ethanol/Denatured Alcohol which is used for Ethanol fuelled fireplaces, Canadian Tires here sell them.

 

[Gnpenning]

Lanolin and alcohol makes a great case lube. Must be all the reloaders.

The warnings on everything devalue the message. Since everything causes cancer there is no need to put it on everything.