Where 2 buy 3x distilled water and 100 alchohol?

I would guess that a chemical lab supply house would have them. Try the Yellow Pages or get in touch with someone at a local college to see who supplies them. I know that for my model railroad painting needs I required distilled water and found it at a local drugstore. Was it 3X distilled or not, who knows. It worked fine with acrylics though. Home brewed D-3 fluid heh? What will they think of next. Good day.

Distilled water is not as pure as deionized water (DI water). Try getting some DI water from a chemistry lab...

Trust me the 3x distilled water isn't for cleaning his records- well directly it isn't ;) he is using it to mix with his armagnac while he cleans his records. He's a little twisted like that! ~Tim

Hi,

I get my "insane quality water" from a local computer chip manufacturer. I don't think the corporate office would be interested in selling me 5 gallons but since I have friends that work there they just ask permission to give me some.

The best alcohol I have been able to find is denatured avaiable at pharmacies. I have found the pharmacy folks really nice and regularly buy 4 bottles at a time for about $3.50 each. My guess is that pure alcohol (lab grade) would be cost prohibitive.

I'm not sure it really matters much when one considers the process of limited alcohol exposure and vacuuming the surface after a water rinse. I think the purer ingredients at least offer some added peace of mind.

Kodak PhotoFlow is a great addition. It's similar to soap in that is breaks the surface tension and allows the fluid to do it's job faster. Photographic film is pretty delicate stuff so I can't believe it would degrade a disk that needed cleaning.

Good luck.

Bill, We use a great deal of 100% isopropyl alcohol at work in the course of making photogravure etchings. It is purchased in 5 gallon lots from Pittman, a printers supply firm. It costs about $75.00 for a 5 gallon metal can. Will.