Isopropyl Alchohol - rubbing alchohol

Lorian

Curry_Queen wrote:

Don'y worry hun, it's commonly used as a disinfectant in the UK too in hospitals, GP surgeries, vets etc, and is the active ingredient in many alcohol-based hand rubs, pre-injection swabs, sanitising wipes etc

As an active ingredient, IE diluted. I was talking about pure Isopropyl. The only thing I'd ever used it for is as a solvent.

edie_2

Isopropyl alcohol (IPA, propan-2-ol) has an US OSHA and UK WEL of 400ppm.
Ethyl alcohol (ethanol, common alcohol) has an US OSHA and UK WEL of 1,000ppm.

Both are used as hard surface disinfectants in a concentration of between 70 and 95%. Hand rubs contain primarily denatured ethanol with less than 5% IPA because IPA is more hazardous.

if i remember properly most isopropyl alcohol is somehthing like .05% alcohol so not too bad

Isopropyl alcohol is 100% isopropyl alcohol. It is a completely separate chemical entity from ethanol (common alcohol). In order for either to be effective disinfectants they need to be present in a concentration of 70% or greater.

calleyw

HOLsale wrote:

is your laptop a hard glass screen?

NEVER use anything alcohol based on TFT screens, it destoys them!

Never seen a laptop with a glass screen. It is bog standard laptop with a normal TFT screen.

And that is what it says in the manual. I would have thought that manufacturer would have been sued if they said do it and it wrecked the screens.

I have no idea what they used on my screen when I sent it back to be fixed a couple of years ago came back perfect.

I have feeling that you will find most of the screen wipes have alcohol in.

Yours


Calley

janb5

I got isopropyl alcohol from a chemist once I told them what I wanted it for! It has been recommended on ` Houses behaving badly` to clean mirrors particularly to remove buildup of laquer. Excellent stuff - dried quite quickly and certainly cleans mirrors to perfection!

larmy16

janb5 wrote:

I got isopropyl alcohol from a chemist once I told them what I wanted it for! It has been recommended on ` Houses behaving badly` to clean mirrors particularly to remove buildup of laquer. Excellent stuff - dried quite quickly and certainly cleans mirrors to perfection!

You are quite right that Steph on Houses Behaving Badly is always going on about isopropyl alchohol. She has a fog horn laugh has she not????

Oh well, we shall all just have to do with methylated spirits won't we? We used to use that to clean the mirrors in the hairdressers I used to work in and I occasionally use it to give my specs a good degrease. Plus I love the smell....yum.

Lara

This is commonly used in sugarcraft. You mix it with any sugarcraft colour pastes when painting plaques, or flowers etc and it dries very quickly. It can easily be bought from a sugarcraft shop, mail order from somewhere like Squires Kitchen, Diamond Paste aka Sugar City etc. As for using it to clean the house I haven't a clue . My chemist will get it for me much cheaper and in a large bottle if I ask him and tell him what I want it for.

HOLsale

calleyw wrote:

Never seen a laptop with a glass screen. It is bog standard laptop with a normal TFT screen.

And that is what it says in the manual. I would have thought that manufacturer would have been sued if they said do it and it wrecked the screens.

I have no idea what they used on my screen when I sent it back to be fixed a couple of years ago came back perfect.

I have feeling that you will find most of the screen wipes have alcohol in.

Yours


Calley

i worked for samsung for some time and handled calls about monitors on a regular basis we were ALWAYS told to tell customers with tft screens NEVER to use alcohol based wipes as they are very bad for your screen

and PC world and the likes regularly sell and recommend ALCOHOL FREE screen wipes, i have 2 containers near my screen as we speak

calleyw

HOLsale wrote:

i worked for samsung for some time and handled calls about monitors on a regular basis we were ALWAYS told to tell customers with tft screens NEVER to use alcohol based wipes as they are very bad for your screen

and PC world and the likes regularly sell and recommend ALCOHOL FREE screen wipes, i have 2 containers near my screen as we speak

I would only get the alcohol free ones anyway as they show you that you can use them on TFT screens.

But a lot of people are not aware of it. And will buy just any wipes.

As I have not got any that is why my screen is really grim at the moment.

But I am going to try a microfibre cloth and see what happens.

Yours

Calley