We have a similar common name for it being 'brand spiritus'. It's basically 90% - 92% alcohol, with the rest being methanol and water and it's color is blue-ish.
Ed -- Ik email, dus ik besta. BTC : 1J5fajt8ptyZ2V1YURj3YJZhe5j3fJVSHN LTC : LP2WuEmYPbpWUBqMFGJfdm7pdHEW7fKvDz On Thu, January 5, 2017 14:22, Noel Chiappa wrote: > > From: Klemens Krause > > > We clean our RK05 disks in a very robust way: with cheap burning > spirit > > and paper towels. ... We rubbed away thick black traces from > occasional > > head crashes and we never removed the oxide coating with this > torture. > > I am about to get a large batch of RK05 packs, so I am interested in the > details of this. > > First, what is 'burning spirit'? (I assume this is a straight translation > into English of some German term, but not knowing German... :-) After > poking > around with Google for a while (hampered no little by the fact that it's > the > name of a band, and also a term in World of Warcraft :-), it seems like it > might be acetone? > > Noel >