Quote Originally Posted by McCreed View Post
When it comes to dissolving the flakes, you want to source methylated spirits that are "industrial" (100% Ethanol) not the 95% Diggers you'll get at the supermarket (or Bunnings).
<rases hand> erm, NO! 100% ethanol is *not* mentholated in any way shape or form, and what you are probably thinking of is nenatured alcohol. Via diatillation 96% is the best you can manage.. 100% is harder to do and costs a lot of money and requires certain licesnces to obtain. Since you are using it for a coating rather than to drink, and you want to go the no water route you would go for dessicated denatured alcohol . from memory it's 95% ethanl and 5% methanol. We used to buy 20L drums for the lab.