Denatured alcohol

Maybe the problem is the name *LINK*

Fred in NC

>Because it is known by other names outside the US.

It is used as a solvent for shellac. Maybe if you ask wherever they sell shellac they will know. I would try anyplace that sells varnishes.

The link below has other names for it.


Alcohol Names

Re: Denatured alcohol

Ruth in So. Cal

>(just working here for a while form Bowen Island BC nr Vancouver)

Pierre,

Home Depot, Revy, and the like...it's Ethanol....sells for the same as here, about $12 CAN

Right !

Fred in NC

>Denatured alcohol is ethanol that has been made unfit for human consumption by the addition of harmful additives in order to make it exempt from taxes.

Re: Denatured alcohol

Fred Le Bail

>Like you, I could not find Denatured alcohol anywhere. I have been using Methyl Hydrate with similiar results as D A .

I will try to find Ethanol now though to see if it is any better.

Fred

A few sources I have found

Dave Smith, Longview, WA

>I am sure there must be other products available in Canada but so far I have only found Mohawk Shellac Reducer which is 90% ethanol. I had to look at the MSDS to verify that it is ethanol.

I do not recommend methanol because it is toxic. Ethanol is listed as harmful in the MSDS.

Distribution list for Mohawk products.

http://www.mohawk-finishing.com/dist_lookup.asp

Mohawk Western Fin Supp Ltd

Richelieu

Jacques Coulombe Ltd

Dave Smith

Nursing finger blisters from finishing pens in Longview, WA.

Re: Denatured alcohol

Bill Howatt

>Pierre,

Denatured alcohol can be obtained from BSC:

Blended Specialty Chemicals

1456 Cyrville Rd

Ottawa, Ontario

K1B 3L9

613 744-8896

They are not far from the St. Laurent Mall if you know Ottawa. Cost about $11cdn for 4L if I remember correctly.

I think it is ethanol denatured with 5% methanol.

Denatured alcohol is ethanol (drinkable) that has been rendered undrinkable by various other chemicals, methanol being one of them. In other words not all denatured alcohols are identical.

There must be a place in Montreal you can find it.

Bill

Re: Denatured alcohol

Bill Neddow

>Pierre, I also just hit on this source (Blended Specialty Chemicals) Rosewood Studios in Almonte had some litres of denatured alcohol for sale. I enquired where I could get it in volume, and they gave me the name of BSC.

Re: Denatured alcohol

Mike Brazeau

>I spent my career in the laboratory supply and equipment business. In the retail trade Denatured Alcohol in Canada is Methanol. Recently I spoke to Commercial Alcohols in Brampton, Ontario. They receive the neat Ethanol from the industrial alcohol producers and denature it with methanol or other solvents depending on its inteneded use. They will sell consumers in 25 litre quantities or ship 200 litre drums. It is very expensive, about $50 Cdn for the 25 litres. If you are picking it up yourself, you need a Hazardous Chemical Transportation Certificate. A fellow member of our guild works for Record Chemical Canada and they produce much of the denatured ethanol for the US retail market. He is responsible for compliance and said that even a four litre jug of 95% EtOH should technically have a certificate. In an auto accident if it flashed you would be toast (sorry flambeed) in no time. Same goes for storing in your garage etc. It sounds like a neat method, and I was excited about the possibilities but is impatience worth the expense and risks to health and safety in the home shop? If I had every roughed out bowl I have on hand finished, I guess I would reconsider, but I don't think that day will ever come.

Re: Denatured alcohol - Canadian Version

Don Thompson - Cutler Ridge, Florida

>I believe that the common name for denatured alcohol in Canada is methylated spirits.

Re: Denatured alcohol - Canadian Version

Bill Howatt

>Metylated spirits is a Brit term. I haven't seen it in much common usage here.

Bill

Re: Denatured alcohol *LINK*

Bill Howatt

>The denatured alcohol I bought from BSC is 85% alcohol and 15% methanol. It is called DAG-2A.

Link below specifies Cdn denatured alcohol and their compositions.

Bill


Cdn Denatured Alcohol Specs

Right you are!

Don Thompson - Cutler Ridge, Florida

>I re-read This thread over in the Hand Tools Archive. It was an American telling a Canadian, not the other way around.