OT: cleaning pots on my vintage audio amp

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Tue Feb 19 15:39:05 2002

> > > > > > I generally clean pots and swtiches with propan-2-ol.
> > > > > Ok, is that a chemical name, or a product name?
> > > > It's labelled "isopropanol" in the States.
> > > Isn't the IUPAC convention to prefix the carbon number? Like so:
> > > 2-propanol?
> > Or you can call it "Isopropyl alcohol" or just "rubbing alcohol"!
> > (But you want the 90+% stuff, NOT the 70%)
>
> But I don't think either of those are official convention.

In spite of not being "official convention" (and sometimes not even
CORRECT), when telling somebody to get something, it just might be useful
to them to know what it is called at the places that they buy it.
Received on Tue Feb 19 2002 - 15:39:05 GMT