Since I moved to New Zealand getting alcohol has been a pain but when I lived in canada I could go to any drug store and get it. They had 70% stuff on the shelf and you had to get a licenced pharmacist to approve you buying the 99% stuff which was kept behind the counter. You got questioned about why you wanted it before you could buy it - which resulted in strange looks as a pharmasict who knew nothing about rocks tried to understand why I wanted it. Cutting with alcohol is excellent. You dont weather the meteorite, make a clean quick cut, dont make a mess and your blades last a long time. Very little clean up afterwards (when compared to cutting with water or oil). The only downside I found is that you get a very strong poisenous odor. I stopped using it because of this but if you had a good mask and cut outside (Preferably with a bit of wind to quickly drive the fumes away from you) it would probably work well. Probably wouldent be a good idea to cut indoors using alcohol. Thats my thoughts on cutting with alcohol anyway. I loved using it except for the fumes. I never experienced the spark/fire problem that adam mentioned but that sounds like something to consider and might be another reason to only cut outside. Cheers DEAN
--- McCartney Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wow, I got a wonderful deluge of helpful info. > Thanks to everyone, I > won't be able to respond to all emails. I will > definitely use alcohol. > Fear not I'll be safe. > > Now then, I got off the plane this morning, and now > I'm going to go > crawl into bed from my > French/Spanish/Chilean/Zimbabwean/Mexican/South > African/Burma trip. > > Tomorrow, perhaps the guesses will be better. > Everyone seems to think > the all the wine in the world comes from 2 > countries... > > -mt > > > ______________________________________________ > http://www.meteoritecentral.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
