Heh - GSD is just down the road from here... They have been making a TON of the stuff for the last several weeks.

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Originally posted by rburg:

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Originally posted by David Lee:
[QUOTE] Just $13.00 on the counter here in Kentucky.

Which counter?

BP Station in Richwood, KY.

Somewhere, there is someone who has used this product for "medicinal purposes". When I was a kid, we had a local "Otis Campbell" who wandered the streets in our little town. He came from a family that was pretty well off financially, but he chose a different path.

His main claim to fame was this ability to wander into the local Service Station and pilfer a can of brake fluid on days when he had nothing else to drink. Why it didn't kill him immediately, I'll never know, but he lived (survived) to middle age. Where there is a will, there is a way......

Y'all know it is not hard at all to make alcohol and specifically ethyl .... we've been doing it down here in the dark corners for close on to two hundred years....

isopropyl alcohol is what you get at the drug store and was readily available and inexpensive until recent events. 70, 80, 90 and the grand daddy 99%. I find this the best for sanitizing your hands if you're going to use just pure alcohol. Dries almost immediately, and once it's dry it's done it's thing. That's what is in the little packet wipes the nurses use before they give you a shot. If you should ingest a tinny bit from your hands it's no problem. Not so much with wood alcohol and a lessor extent denatured. As with H2O2, if it's not keep in a very airtight container, it dilutes to H2O. H2O2 also needs to be kept in a light proof container. Vis a Vis the brown bottle it comes in or it converts to H2O pretty quickly. That processed concoction is not too bad (have a bottle) but it smells like crap.

The ideal mixture for disinfecting is actually 70%. You need some water to act as a catalyst, and also evaporates more slowly, increasing contact time. 99% does make the best solvent, so is better as a cleaning agent.

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Originally posted by kkina:
The ideal mixture for disinfecting is actually 70%. You need some water to act as a catalyst, and also evaporates more slowly, increasing contact time. 99% does make the best solvent, so is better as a cleaning agent.

Yes, and best for "rubbing", but since the higher concentration don't stay that way in storage especially if exposed to the atmosphere, I always look for at least 90 %.

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Originally posted by PASig:
I have a bottle too from another PA distillery, a lot of them switched to making sanitizer when it became scarce and also in an attempt to stay afloat financially.

I think most of them are raw alcohol, basically moonshine, with some additives like aloe and glycerin.

Here’s mine:

Redners?

^^^^^^^^^^ This!

Regards,
Blackhorse4