Methanol

[Israel Stein]

At 08:47 PM 3/18/2006, "William R. Monroe" <pianotech at a440piano.net> wrote:
>James, List,
>
>I'm sure this has been discussed, and I may look the fool to ask, but, any
>reason not to use denatured alcohol (aka ethanol, aka grain alcohol)?  I
>keep a bottle of anhydrous denatured alcohol on hand for mixing/dissolving
>shellac flakes.  Is there a reason to stay away from this for piano work?
>It is much less harmful to us/environment, although it does evaporate
>slightly more slowly than methanol.
>
>curious as george,
>William R. Monroe


Methanol is a lot faster-acting and much more effective. I switched 
from denatured alcohol to Methanol several years ago...

Israel Stein