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Old 07-01-2008, 06:15 PM
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Originally Posted by SteveG
You can buy acetone by the quart at Home Depot. You would pay a great premium for any quantity of nail polish remover, fragrance and fashion, you know; unless you run a "Nail" shop in the mall and can get it wholesale. Is there something you want to reveal to us?
I bought 16fl oz of acetone at the CVS next to my office. Label says 100% Acetone Max Strength Nail Polish remover. All the others had water listed as an ingredient. Set me back $2.99. Fair trade not to have to venture to Home Depot.
Old 07-02-2008, 12:04 AM
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Nail polish remover has acetone as active ingredient, then stabilizers and stuff to hold it on the nails long enough to do some good on the polish. Straight acetone flashes off almost as fast as you can put it on with those little brush thingies. It's getting tougher to keep nails nice these days.
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These days nail polish remover often has Ethyl acetate as an ingredient which may alter your results.
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Originally Posted by dr bob
..................It's getting tougher to keep nails nice these days.


You guy's are starting to worry me.
Old 07-02-2008, 05:09 AM
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Yeah, I found that out. After the initial post about this stuff, I drove down to CVS and bought some. The 'non acetone' stuff is marked as such, you can't just walk in and grab the first bottle of nail polish remover you see. I'd been using Liquid Wrench for almost my entire life, but now can't find it in a pour can, only aerosol; acetone and PSF hasn't proven to be all that better so far, but it's easier to come by at three a.m. on a Sunday night when I've ran out of everything else. And I can mix it whenever I need it and let stuff sit in it. Liquid Wrench, when used as a soak in a jar, also kind of dissolved the rust off of stuff as well as loosening the threads; it'll be interesting to see if the acetone/psf mix will do the same thing.



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