Bestine solvent and thinner quart

Very good quality bestine, however you will pay a customs and excise charge when ordering this outside of the US

I am a Graphic Designer and artist. Used this now for 30 years and I can't be without it. Removes marks, dirt, and cleans used mats for framing, takes gum out of carpet, labels off of mirrors and glass, cleans plastic, coins and more. Be careful-it is very flammable. Vaporizes quickly, keep metal lid tightly closed when not using.

This product works very well for organic extraction when non-polar solvent is required. By this instead of naphtha.

I can't live without this stuff. Nearly every thing I buy has stickers on it, that leave gum residue when I peel them off. This solvent has barely any odor at all. It is NOT like "Goop-Off" which has a strong smell. I use this to remove sticky/gum and to final rinse parts when degreasing. I'll clean them first in cheap paint thinner. Then let them drip onto a rag. Then wash them just enough with this to rinse away the smelly paint thinner. Then let dry or blow off with an air gun. This stuff evaporates very quickly. If you get most of the paint thinner off first, then you can collect the runoff of this solvent into a sealable container (glass or metal with good seal, or else this will evaporate right through many plastics!). I can re-use it several times this way. This is a very pure n-heptane. The only other way to get something like this would be 3-10x more $$$ for lab reagent grade n-heptane from a chemical co., which consumers wouldn't be able to purchase anyway. NOTE: Hardware store Naptha is not quite exactly the same thing! Naptha is a mix of petroleum distillates with a certain boiling range (like gasoline), and includes some of hexane(s), heptane(s), and octane(s). There will be tiny amounts of other stuff too, like maybe a trace of benzene (but I think they have to remove that to "as low as reasonably possible" levels). So don't worry about benzene in Naptha. What concerns me is that in recent years some science came out which shows n-hexane to be quite toxic relative to n-heptane. n-hexane is present as a major constituent of naptha. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexane#Safety So I like this stuff. Safe. I don't bother with gloves, unless I've already got my hands too dry.The serious hazard is: it's basically like odorless gasoline. So if you are using more than a few mL (a few spoonfuls) indoors, then you need enough ventilation to prevent a vapor cloud from accumulating that could start a flash fire. One other thing: It's almost impossible to pour hydrocarbon solvents from any container without it running down the side and wasting a bunch. So I've tried to keep about 125-250mL (1/2-1 cup) in the house in a little Nalgene wash bottle. Problem: it evaporates very quickly! It basically passes right through plastic bottles, one molecule at a time through the gaps between the polymer chains. So even a sealed plastic container has the same problem. The only squeezable plastic container that holds it without loss is teflon wash and dropper bottles. These are VERY $$$!!! I look for them on Ebay and found a deal on 4 little 1oz Nalgene FEP droppers for about the price of one new ($69), and I found a 125mL FEP wash bottle for about $60 that to get new, they are about $118 (ouch!). So I'm set now. The stuff doesn't evaporate from these bottles at all, nor does it get contaminated from plasticizers extracted from the plastic--which can be a concern for cleaning optics or semiconductors, in case you are fabbing chips in your kitchen ;-)

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If you are a stamp collector, you must try out this amazing chemical!I searched the Web for a way to remove self-sticking postage stamps from envelopes so I could mount them in my stamp album. I found an article which told me how to use “Bestine” and talcum powder to accomplish the task. Other solvents such as “Goo Gone” work, but stain the stamp. “Un-du” did not work for me, though it contains the same main ingredient. I believe it is because “Un-du” consists of a substantially less amount of the solvent Heptane than “Bestine”.Get yourself an eyedropper (I bought a glass one with a rubber squeeze bulb at Hobby Lobby); a container of unscented talcum powder (I bought a plastic squeeze bottle of “Windicator” from the hunting section in Wal-Mart), and a can of “Bestine” (which I bought here at Amazon.com).Be sure to use “Bestine” in a well-ventilated space and do not use “Bestine” near an open flame or sparks. I went to http://papercement.com/msds_bestine.pdf and printed out a Material Safety Data Sheet for my own safety.Take an envelope with self-adhesive postage stamp attached. Turn it over so that the stamp is face down and apply a couple of drops of “Bestine” via your eyedropper to the envelop side over the area where the stamp is located. You could likely apply it to the stamp itself, but I found this way works while soaking the stamp with the chemical as little as possible.Carefully peel the stamp off the envelope. The back of the stamp will be sticky with the self-adhesive glue, so apply just enough talcum powder (“Windicator”) to the glue to remove the stickiness.The postage stamp is now a perfect specimen to mount in your stamp album.I have collected stamps since my childhood and with this awesome approach, I am able to continue collecting, expertly placing even the new self-adhesive stamps in my album!