[meteorite-list] Last Call for Alcohol

[dean bessey]

Since I moved to New Zealand getting alcohol has been
a pain but when I lived in canada I could go to any
drug store and get it. They had 70% stuff on the shelf
and you had to get a licenced pharmacist to approve
you buying the 99% stuff which was kept behind the
counter. You got questioned about why you wanted it
before you could buy it - which resulted in strange
looks as a pharmasict who knew nothing about rocks
tried to understand why I wanted it. 
Cutting with alcohol is excellent. You dont weather
the meteorite, make a clean quick cut, dont make a
mess and your blades last a long time. Very little
clean up afterwards (when compared to cutting with
water or oil).
The only downside I found is that you get a very
strong poisenous odor. I stopped using it because of
this but if you had a good mask and cut outside
(Preferably with a bit of wind to quickly drive the
fumes away from you) it would probably work well.
Probably wouldent be a good idea to cut indoors using
alcohol.
Thats my thoughts on cutting with alcohol anyway. I
loved using it except for the fumes. I never
experienced the spark/fire problem that adam mentioned
but that sounds like something to consider and might
be another reason to only cut outside.
Cheers
DEAN

--- McCartney Taylor <mccartney at blackbearddata.com>
wrote:

> Wow, I got a wonderful deluge of helpful info. 
> Thanks to everyone, I
> won't be able to respond to all emails.  I will
> definitely use alcohol.
> Fear not I'll be safe.
> 
> Now then, I got off the plane this morning, and now
> I'm going to go
> crawl into bed from my
> French/Spanish/Chilean/Zimbabwean/Mexican/South
> African/Burma  trip.
> 
> Tomorrow, perhaps the guesses will be better.
> Everyone seems to think
> the all the wine in the world comes from 2
> countries...
> 
> -mt
> 
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