Isopropyl Alchohol

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As with the usual looney tunes panic buying there appears to be a shortage of IPA. What there is is an outrageous price. I have been cleaning my airbrush with water and then a run through with IPA. Is the only alternative airbrush cleaner, expensive again, or just clean with water then every now and then use what IPA I have left ?

Or does anyone know where there is stock of IPA ? Amazon are out of stock of my usual one
 
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Just had a quick look on ebay. Seems like a lot of sellers are jumping on the bandwagon to make huge profits.

Don't know if these folks have any left but this seems a good deal as I've seen 250ml containers advertised for three times the price they're charging for 5000ml!!

www.ebay.co.uk

IPA 100% 5 LITRE Lab Grade Isopropyl Alcohol Isopropanol 99.9% RUBBING ALCOHOL | eBay

ISOPROPANOL RUBBING ALCOHOL - 5L TUB - read below for it's variety of uses. Isopropyl Alcohol is a highly versatile solvent which has 1001 uses. Second only to water it is the most commonly used liquid for cleaning and is found in millions of products world wide.
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if you mix ipa with glycerol (which is cheap from the chemist) it makes hand sanitizer thats just as good as the bought stuff
 
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But will it clean my airbrush Paul ? :tears-of-joy:

A good tip though but I just use soap.

Thanks Dave, good spot. Looks like that seller hasn't caught on yet so just ordered some :thumb2:

Edit: Chinese seller but they must have stock in the UK as just got confirmation of delivery on Thursday.
 
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Windex window cleaner works as well....But personally I would just switch to a dedicated airbrush cleaner.
 
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Luckily i have both on my shelf. Plus i don't do that much airbrushing inwhich would require me to use 1L of IPA and 500ml of airbrush cleaner.
 
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See if you can get some lacquer thinner from a hardware shop. That is strong stuff that will clean the airbrush even better than ipa. Make sure that you have solvent resistant seals on the airbrush though, but you should have done that for ipa use anyway. Alternatively try Mr Tool Cleaner....
 
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topgazza said:
The one in my post above still has 9 in stock
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That's odd, the comment I posted "This listing was ended by the seller because the item is no longer available " was copied from that link.
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Thats weird Peter as it now says there are 8 vailable. But also from a different supplier, same product, has 11

[URL www.ebay.co.uk/itm/IPA-100-5-LITRE-Lab-Grade-Isopropyl-Alcohol-Isopropanol-99-9-RUBBING-ALCOHOL/372988416326?hash=item56d7d79146:g:ivcAAOSwIWxebjdJ[/URL]

or this one does different sizes although rip off prices

[URL www.ebay.co.uk/itm/99-5-Isopropanol-IPA-Isopropyl-Alcohol-Propan-2-ol-in-100ml-to-25litres/333546486309?_trkparms=aid%3D555021%26algo%3DPL.SIMRVI%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D225114%26meid%3D88c6fac0c64b40538ea9cd309472a457%26pid%3D100752%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D16%26mehot%3Dpf%26sd%3D133361554518%26itm%3D333546486309%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D0%26pg%3D2047675%26algv%3DSimplRVIAMLv5WebWithPLRVIOnTopCombiner&_trksid=p2047675.c100752.m1982[/URL]
 
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Gary,
As Dave said washing up liquid and warm water, followed by a run through with thinners to get rid of the moisture.
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