Isopropyl alcohol causes cancer
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Crap! I hope this isn't true. It is super helpful for cleaning air brushes and other random things.
I keep a bottle of 91% isopropyl alcohol on my bench and use it to clean flux off soldered joints on circuit boards. I also use it to clean the lady’s pierced ear earrings. It does a great job on both.
Yeah. We had little dispenser bottles and wire brushes in our board repair shop. You push on the top of the bottle with the brush and a little liquid comes out and you dip the brush and then brush the PWB joints. Also, rubber erasers were great for cleaning card edge fingers.
I use it a lot myself. If you don't have cancer than, OK, I guess? I've heard of old timers using everclear to clean stuff. Sucks paying the taxes on that though.
It's cheaper to mash your own grain alcohol than buy Everclear now days lol
I've made my own sanitizer using cheap vodka mixed 50/50 with water in a spray bottle.
i did too.. .but added some OJ and drank it.... i feel much better now!
Just keep your mash under 79 degrees centigrade in the still pot so you don’t get any 1-propanol in the output. This is why the old-time bootleggers kept the “first cut” or early distillate for themselves or their favored customers. As the mash temperature rose over 80 C, the unwanted products started coming over with the ethyl alcohol.
I guess if you don't have cancer you are okay.
And the amount of exposure from using with a rag or cu-tip to clean with it is very small compared to the amount of exposure from hand sanitizing.
I will definitely be more cautious of letting it be sprayed through an airbrush, though.