Do you have a secret trick?

zaxdog

RobM99 said:

zaxdog said:

RobM99 said:

zaxdog said:

RobM99 said:

Rosa_Damascena said:

YoungBlueEyes said:

That's brilliant, thanks I don't have white spirit but I have the other 2. By IPA do you mean the beer??

Actually that raises another question. Can you still get proper white spirit?

IMS has to be coloured because of the risk of poisoning - otherwise left around kids / alcoholics, its an accident waiting to happen. Had a Google and white spirit still appears to be white.

Also coloured to show it's duty free, same as 'red' Diesel (which isn't Diesel). IMS also has a bittering agent (quinine? Can't remember) - the same stuff in the gel mums put on kids thumbs to stop them sucking them. It's usually 95% ethanol C2 H5 OH ("drinking alcohol", it used to  be called) and 5% methanol (wood alcohol)  CH3 OH which burns with a blue flame.

Red diesel is also known as gas oil and is just regular diesel which has had a dye added to it. This is because it has restricted use eg for forestry, agricultural, fishing, domestic heating etc. In rural areas inspectors will "dip" road vehicles and the dye in even trace amounts can carry a large fine. This is due to the different levels of taxation used for white/road diesel. The restrictions on uses for red diesel have also been tightened recently.

Lots of hotels/large rental holiday homes have converted their systems to kerosene (replacing jets etc) as a result.

Hope this helps

No. Diesel has a much lower sulphur and moisture  content and different additives - lubricity, anti-foamant, detergent, cetane improver and sometimes deodorant. Gas oil is a straight stream from crude distillation and  is feed to a CHD (Catalytic Hydro-Desulphuriser) which also removes the moisture. Source - me, I worked in refinery labs for years. The red dye is quinizarin which as you say, is tested for. 

I work in logistics and transport for an oil company. In lots of cases (for example island deliveries) diesel is delivered to the depot and pumped into two separate tanks one of which then has the dye added in situ. Same fuel with a dye added.

It may be that the spec' for gas oil has changed since I left - 0.3% max sulphur then, 5ppm Diesel. If it hasn't, it bloomin' well should!  Anyway that was a few years back.

I think a few things have changed in the last few years. I do know that certain islands are still on E5 petrol for the next few years whilst E10 is now compulsory on the mainland. 

RobM99

You'll remember MTBE in petrol? (Sorry to hijack the thread!!)

DiamondLil

YoungBlueEyes said:

That's brilliant, thanks I don't have white spirit but I have the other 2. By IPA do you mean the beer??

Actually that raises another question. Can you still get proper white spirit?

IPA = Iso-propyl alcohol; and yes to white spirit still being available. Any decorator's supplies shop, d.i.y. shop will have it. In the UK that is.

weenancyinAmerica

In the United States, white spirits are rubbing alcohol and any pharmacy section of a store will have it.

YoungBlueEyes

Brilliant thanks DiamondLil  

Nail varnish remover (old style acetone stuff) worked a treat. My scrubby sponge will live to see another day  

And don’t worry about hijacking the thread, I love a good/interesting ramble 

greyteam1959

YoungBlueEyes said:

Brilliant thanks DiamondLil  

Nail varnish remover (old style acetone stuff) worked a treat. My scrubby sponge will live to see another day  

And don’t worry about hijacking the thread, I love a good/interesting ramble 

Use WD40 to remove the sticky residue left by labels on jars.

RobM99

Got oil or gloss paint on your hands? Cooking oil. Done!

NornIronRose

Cooking oil also works to get wax residue off your skin if you have had a hair- removing session. 
WD40 works a treat too but stinks! 
Oh, WD40 for cleaning metal light switch plates. A little on a cloth takes off all the finger marks. 

oystercatcher

Brie said:

I'm less concerned about labels on glass jars than sticky labels on fruit and veg that I want to eat.  I hate it when a shop has a label on something like butternut squash assuming I don't want to eat the skin (which is perfectly edible).  likewise fruit like apples or pears.  OK if it's a banana where I don't believe anyone would eat the skin.  (of course one might be bbqing it in the skin).

So far I've managed to scrub the stickiness off but it's a bit annoying.

Our chickens love eating bannana skins ! 

Rosa_Damascena

oystercatcher said:

Brie said:

I'm less concerned about labels on glass jars than sticky labels on fruit and veg that I want to eat.  I hate it when a shop has a label on something like butternut squash assuming I don't want to eat the skin (which is perfectly edible).  likewise fruit like apples or pears.  OK if it's a banana where I don't believe anyone would eat the skin.  (of course one might be bbqing it in the skin).

So far I've managed to scrub the stickiness off but it's a bit annoying.

Our chickens love eating bannana skins ! 

That's worth knowing. I heard that it takes 2 years for a banana skin to decompose so if the chooks can be of assistance, all the better.