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| Thread ID: 71833 | 2006-08-18 23:13:00 | Methyl-Ethyl-Ketone | Billy T (70) | PC World Chat |
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| 479217 | 2006-08-18 23:13:00 | Hi Team I need to get few CCs of MEK for some product testing I am doing. Can anybody suggest an Auckland source that sells MEK, or some common users in industry who might fill a small bottle for me? Do printers use MEK? Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 479218 | 2006-08-18 23:27:00 | I was so excited at the beginning when I see the word "methyl-ethyl-ketone", thinking that this thread was about some chemistry problem. Sorry for contributing unhelpful post to this thread, Billy T. Cheers :) |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 479219 | 2006-08-18 23:32:00 | Try some printers or ink suppliers they will have it, just make sure you are in a well ventilated room when using it. also known as dry ink remover. Nova inks and chemicals or Flint ink |
plod (107) | ||
| 479220 | 2006-08-19 00:23:00 | Thanks Plod I'll do the rounds of my local printers with en eyedropper in my hand! I only need to use one or two tiny droplets and after that any spare will be kept in my supply of "Solvents useful for repairing plastic". I won't be inhaling any either, I use a paintbrush cleaner that is 35% Xylene, 35% Naptha petroleum (whatever that is) and 20% MEK, and the fumes from that brew would blow your head off, it is a real intoxicant. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 479221 | 2006-08-19 00:36:00 | Thanks Plod I'll do the rounds of my local printers with en eyedropper in my hand! I only need to use one or two tiny droplets and after that any spare will be kept in my supply of "Solvents useful for repairing plastic". I won't be inhaling any either, I use a paintbrush cleaner that is 35% Xylene, 35% Naptha petroleum (whatever that is) and 20% MEK, and the fumes from that brew would blow your head off, it is a real intoxicant. Cheers Billy 8-{) You will probably find dimethyl ketone otherwise known as acetone will do the same job and is more easily available, from memory its a bit more volatile than MEK. By the way naphtha is the correct spelling!! |
bonzo29 (2348) | ||
| 479222 | 2006-08-19 00:50:00 | You will probably find dimethyl ketone otherwise known as acetone will do the same job and is more easily available, from memory its a bit more volatile than MEK. I already have acetone, that is another of the substances I am using to test. By the way naphtha is the correct spelling!!According to the world at large (google can produce great statistics just by checking hit counts) 82% spell it naphtha, and 18% spell it naptha, including the makers of the paint brush cleaner! However in NZ, 53% spell it naptha and only 47% spell it naphtha. Go figure! Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 479223 | 2006-08-19 01:31:00 | According to the world at large (google can produce great statistics just by checking hit counts) 82% spell it naphtha, and 18% spell it naptha, including the makers of the paint brush cleaner! However in NZ, 53% spell it naptha and only 47% spell it naphtha . Can you advise how you used Google to get those figures please? |
Greg (193) | ||
| 479224 | 2006-08-19 02:51:00 | Google the words and compare the number of hits seems the obvious way. Billy, the uni might have some, if you go to a chem lab and ask nicely. |
roddy_boy (4115) | ||
| 479225 | 2006-08-19 04:16:00 | Can you advise how you used Google to get those figures please? Hi Greg roddy_boy hit it in one . I just enter the word into Google and count the hits . For this spelling I compared the whole of web result with the NZ only result . I use this to get indicative statistics on all sorts of things, but mostly preferred spellings . Take from it what you will, but the following is a quick comparison of colours: World:____ NZ: 1 white___ white 2 black___ green 3 red_____ black 4 green___ red 5 blue____ blue 6 yellow___ brown 7 brown___ yellow 8 orange___ orange 9 purple___ purple The prominence of green for NZ is not surprising . Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 479226 | 2006-08-19 04:29:00 | Thanks. I was searching through Google's tools (www.google.com) and couldn't find one that did it. | Greg (193) | ||
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