Finally have a vent hood so I can more safely run distillations -- yay! Tested it out isolating methanol from this denatured alcohol, first time doing it and holy fuck is it a slow separation if you want at least 95% purity! One degree above boiling temp and the vapor is already up to 7% ethanol. SDS says 30-60% methanol, unfortunately it turned out to be closer to 30 than 60. Had to set it up with the auto temp control to keep it going all day while I do other stuff. Happy my little corner is coming along -- sheets of acrylite and hdpe for making a box at some point, vacuum pump is on the way...
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mikeman001
25 to 90 ml of methanol can be lethal. Often times permanent blindness is the result if one lives.... DO NOT INJEST
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February 4, 2021
Batman419
Homemade wine also has methanol in it as well as brandy produced through freeze-distillation. My wife drinks my wine like its the cure to being an alcoholic and she has yet to go blind or get lock jaw. And obviously its diluted with ethanol, but i was under the impression that just being diluted was... View More
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February 4, 2021
ToadallyAwesome
Batman interesting, Ive also read that methanol is endogenous in our mouths and saliva, so like we do actually have something tiny like 0.03% in our breath. The dose makes the poison. I think the main problem with poisoning is that early distillers just started drinking their heads right as they rol... View More
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CHIEFBIGBEAR
Batman- distiller "heads" is ethanol and methanol together. Its still very dangerous. The smell alone will make you think twice about having a sip.
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