At 7:40 PM -0400 7/4/99, A440A@AOL.COM wrote: > This isn't squaring with my results. Straight methanol loosened up the >bushings, many of them too much so. I would not think there was any water >worth consideration, since this was straight from the pharmacy to the action. > >Wondering, >Ed Two years ago on the list, I mentioned that a Sherwin Williams tech rep told me that their denatured alcohol would have no more that 0.5% water content. Someone on the list replied that alcohol was hydrophilic (I just now made that word up), and upon being unsealed, would begin to drink up as much moisture content as it could, from the surrounding air. I have never known alcohol to work any effect on wool. Anytime wool was affected, water was a player. Ed, were your actions in air conditioned studios? If so, that climate might explain the inordinate effect you report in the face of others' experience. Help yourself to a weaker dose of water, starting out with 70/30 isopropyl alcohol. On second thought I'm sureyou already have. BTW, I was taught to repin also, probably by ther same guy. Bill Ballard, RPT New Hampshire Chapter, PTG "So, I hear you like baked goods" A new customer, very happy to see me
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