Is this to deter people from buying it to drink because it has "alcohol" in its name?
Does it really cost this much to manufacture?
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Is this to deter people from buying it to drink because it has "alcohol" in its name?
Does it really cost this much to manufacture?
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Bunnings profit margins.
If you regularly need it, Sydney Solvents offer 5L for the same price.
Don’t buy from bunnings, lots of cleaning supply places that sell way cheaper
Wife is a nurse and said the hand sanitizer always gets drunk by patients
It used to be cheap, same price as all the other solvents at Bunnings, then it gained popularity via DIY car detailing and the price shot up.
Ironically I can buy 1L of it from a Car Detailing Company for the same price as 250ml from Bunnings
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Because they can… Unfortunately.
Sydney Solvents mate.
turps for burps
Isopropanol is super cheap to make. I work in a research lab and we buy it for ~$6 a litre. And that’s for 99.9% purity plus the research chemical markup.
It is also ~~highly~~ toxic to drink. ~~You will die long before being even slightly drunk.~~ Your body metabolizes it into acetone (nail polish remover).
Edit: I misread the toxicity. It’s LD50 is ~60% that of alcohol (lower LD50 = more toxic) so theoretically you can get drunk. You are just much more in danger of serious issues like organ failure and death.
Isopropyl is always more expensive than rubbing alcohol, and is also highly toxic if ingested. I use it to clean electronics.
It is isopropyl alchohol is not ethanol. It has one too many carbon atoms. Beer has ethanol in it, just like methylated spirits, which is not methanol.
Likey just paying a “convenience” tax on products like these, you can probably get 5L from a similar price from a specialty store.
A quick search shows even Amazon has about 1L for half the price and from what looks like an Australian store/brand.
You can find like 5L bottles for $30
Sydney Solvents is the only place you can buy it for reasonable amounts, this depends a lot on shipping, it’s still a lot for me living rural. I’ve been using 95% Metho for 3D printing and that works just fine for my needs. Crazy how overpriced it is everywhere.
Used to buy this shit so cheap by the litres, then when covid came the price went up cause people were using it to clean/disinfect things and the price never came down.
Metho is cheap and does the same job if just for cleaning. Not sure why iso is expensive in Australia, we just seem to have a metho preference
Check if methylated spirits will be safe for the surfaces you wish to wash. Cheap as piss.
They’re different types of alcohol, isopropyl is a petroleum product lethal in its own right while methylated spirits is basically drinking alcohol with added poison to prevent ingestion.
Ha! I only bought this exact product a week ago. I was expecting Metho prices (max $10) and got a rude shock
Buy it from md car care way cheaper even in a 500ml
Like others have said, don’t waste time with Bunnings for chemicals. Sydney Solvents are the best around price and ability to ship very reasonably too.
A fellow 3d printer
Altronics have 3l for $30
https://www.sydneysolvents.com.au/isopropyl-alcohol-ipa-isopropanol-100-5-litre
Never looked back
Global shortage due to how many times i’ve fucked up the paint jobs on my Warhammer minis
Cos mfs be drinking the stuff. They are passing the inflation onto us
Ask Albo.
He’s the one who claims that regulating these consolidated entities would be “Soviet.”
Find a local cleaning chemical shop. Near-wholesale prices for bulk chems
Go to a chemical supplier or an electronics store.
It’s $50 for 5 litres at my local chemical supplier or $67.50 at Altronics