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From: neal@lynx.uucp (Neal Woodall)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Rosin remover
Summary: Not in CA you don't!!!!
Message-ID: <5973@lynx.UUCP>
Date: 7 Aug 89 23:45:08 GMT
References: <6236@stiatl.UUCP> <2515@rayssdb.ray.com>
Reply-To: neal@lynx.UUCP (Neal Woodall)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Lynx Real-Time Systems Inc, Campbell CA
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In article <2515@rayssdb.ray.com> iws@rayssdb.ray.com (Ihor W. Slabicky) writes:
>In article <6236@stiatl.UUCP>, john@stiatl.UUCP (John DeArmond) writes:
 
>> One of the absolute best solvents for most fluxes is 100% ethanol.  This
>> is available at your friendly liquor store as PGA (pure grain alcohol).

>I have bought Grave's Grain Alcohol which is 195 Proof and is
>USP grade.  That is PURE (as in uncontaminated) alcohol - BUT
>it does have water in it!!! Why???? - because when alcohol is
>made to 200 Proof, it quickly absorbs water from the air until
>it settles down to 195 Proof.  You can't get 200 Proof alcohol.

And you cannot get PGA (aka Everclear, aka Grain Alcohol) in the good old
communist state of California at all! Seems that the good old state
legislature, in one of their more pious moods, has decided that "pure
drinking alcohol" is "BAD".....they would rather you not drink any alcohol
at all, but if you must, you may not have PGA, even if you are an adult!
I guess they think that is PGA is available to the general public via the
corner liquor store, that everybody and their cousins will be spending all
of their time drunk. Just another way in which the state of CA is fu*ked!

Now, I am not going to lecture at length about how screwed up California is...
this is just not the newsgroup to do that. But, it seems kind of short-sighted
to me for the damn state legislature to decide that PGA has no place in this
state. I like to drink PGA mixed with daquiri mix...it is also useful as a
good solvent for things like the aforementioned fluxes....it is good for
cleaning CD's with. There are many things that PGA is good for cleaning that
denatured alcohol will screw up (ie, will disolve in some way). 

Another way the CA state legislature has screwed the public in an attempt to
justify their own existance!





Neal