clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:

> >> Yes, it was just a tad less boring than watching paint dry.
> >
> > Depends what you are smoking. ;-)
>
> ... or what solvent the drying paint is based on ;-)

I had the pleasure (?) of discovering a can of the really good methylene
chloride / dichloromethane paint stripper for a job I was doing.  It was fun to
watch that stuff sink right into the several layers of paint - some of which
surely must have been old lead carbonate / linseed oil - and watching it swell
and crinkle up like a prune.  You just about wipe it off after that with a paper
towel.

A different job - we had to use "BIN" to prime some places that had the sap from
pine knots bleeding through, old cigarette tar or kitchen grease, or mold - and
the primary cosolvent used in that is ethanol.  Painting with that inside for
several hours is ... interesting.

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