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   Hi, August!  Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:   
      
    AH>  We have a bottle of isopropyl alcohol listed as 99% USP.   
    AH>  It is used for de-icing frozen car door locks & dissolving   
    AH>  glue from sticky labels we want to remove from book covers,   
    AH>  e.g., without damaging them.   
      
    AA>  A little rag soaked in vodka helps remove the annoying   
    AA>  icing-up that occurs on the inside of a car windshield.   
      
      
             Hmm.  Vodka has a higher price tag... but doesn't come with warnings   
   about ensuring the space is well-ventilated.  This could be quite an advantage   
   if you are using it on the interior of a motor vehicle in winter... [chuckle].   
      
             I was beginning to wonder if the thread might be a little off topic,   
   BTW... until I found in the course of my research that people from Eurasia may   
   not understand the vodka available to us has no added honey &/or spices.  :-))   
      
      
      
    AA>  But I use lighter fluid to remove the oil-based sticky   
    AA>  labels from books.  Dries up very nice, and no stains.   
      
      
             Haven't tried that... I wonder if it might work more quickly.  I use   
   other solvents which require less time & patience, but I don't risk using them   
   on book covers or on anything which is obviously made of plastic....  :-)   
      
      
      
    AA>  I don't even think we can even get any 99% iso alcohol   
    AA>  here! (Canada).  The highest I've seen is 70%.   
      
      
             We used much the same thing until about three years ago, when we ran   
   out during a long spell of particularly cold weather.  It does the job when we   
   need to de-ice a frozen car lock... but we tend to use more of it.   
      
             The bottle we now have was manufactured in Winnipeg & purchased from   
   our local pharmacy... not from a chain which sells groceries & housewares too.   
   IMHO we get better results from people who specialize in such matters....  :-Q   
      
      
      
    AA>  I have a very wimpy-strength 2% solution in the cupboard.   
    AA>  Very handy when I need to disinfect a sore or cut.   
      
      
             We tend to use Polysporin ointment or cream in such cases because we   
   find iso alcohol can be very painful on open wounds.  Maybe it isn't if you're   
   using a 2% solution, but I don't recall having seen such a thing here....  :-)   
      
      
      
      
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