No, surgical spirit is surgical spirit. Ask for ether and you will get some odd looks (in fact there is a TV comedy series set in a hospital called "Surgical Spirit"). Surgical and industrial spirit are very similar (if not the same) and are clear but meths is coloured purple. "Meths" (clear or purple) tends to be the generic name for all of them and "ether" is too unusual now to mean anything other than "the sky" - as in "radio waves travelling through the ether". Has anyone used the purple methylated spirits (as used for camping) to clean the wheel? Liquid rosin sounds to scary from other threads (as I say, it doesn't need cleaning yet but it would be handy to know for future reference). It is what is used to soften, make and remove French Polish in the UK. Colin Hill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Freeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 4:18 PM Subject: Re: [HG] Cleaning your wheel
> > No, ether is something else. It was used as an anaesthetic to put people to > > sleep in the "old days". > I realize that, but I seem to remember hearing the term used in England > - perhaps incorrectly - to refer to surgical spirit. > > -Keith >
