Rockby Electronics has IPA Available in Australia/Melbourne - Page 1
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author: beanflying
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 24, 2020, 09:43:55 am
content: Call this a free plug for one of the few remaining independent Electronic Resellers in Oz. In their Specials list this week they have available some IPA if you are in need of a top uphttps://www.rockby.com.au/catresultsSql_12.cfm?Stock_no=33972If not check them out regardlesshttps://www.rockby.com.au/index2012.cfmAlso depending on what stock is available in your nearest Bunnings started carrying pure IPA a while ago toohttps://www.bunnings.com.au/diggers-500ml-isopropyl-alcohol-cleaner_p1560549not cheap but unlike the usual 70% at Chemists this one is pure.

author: jogri
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 24, 2020, 10:16:27 am
content: 23 bucks for one liter of IPA? Yikes. And that's technical grade IPA, that just means it smells like IPA, kinda behaves like IPA and isn't a solid (or to put it in more formal terms: a purity under 90% and no one can tell you what else is in there).If you are really desperate and absolutely need 98%+ IPA buy a few bottles of 70%, get yourself a distillation kit for 40 bucks on fleabay together with some 3A molecular sieves and do it yourself...

author: Ice-Tea
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 24, 2020, 10:19:10 am
content: Quote from: jogri on April 24, 2020, 10:16:27 amYes, because everyone should be distilling higly flammable liquids at home.

author: beanflying
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 24, 2020, 10:23:41 am
content: Quote from: jogri on April 24, 2020, 10:16:27 amThat is $23 AUD Peso's or under $15 USD with local GSTAs this is an Electronics Forum we don't apart from personal use need 70% which at present is either hard to get or inflated to hell on price.

author: jogri
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 24, 2020, 10:52:30 am
content: We are talking about IPA, not diethylether... As long as you don't heat it with a blowtorch you should be fine, those lab stills are rather idiotproof: Completely closed, and thanks to the boiling point of ~80°C the majority of it will condense even if your cooling fails. "Flammable liquid" doesn't mean that it will engulf you in flames the moment you heat it up to 80-100°C in a still (at least not for IPA).QuoteStill quite expensive, i remember buying a 5l bottle of technical IPA for ~4€/l (or 7 aussie dollars) (okay, that was also pre-Corona). Don't know how expensive IPA normally is in australia, but here in germany 23 AUD would get you 1l 99.98+% IPA together with a certificate from a lab.

author: beanflying
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 24, 2020, 10:58:05 am
content: What part of the small issue of COVID don't you get? We have been as a country fairly much wiped out for options. So take your figures and amateur Chemistry and piss off! This is for Australians!

author: Ice-Tea
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 24, 2020, 12:08:50 pm
content: Quote from: jogri on April 24, 2020, 10:52:30 amWe're talking about random internet people reading this. If you think idiotproof is a thing, you've never been a teacher.

author: Someone
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 24, 2020, 12:29:48 pm
content: Quote from: jogri on April 24, 2020, 10:52:30 amThose lower prices are what you can get through a wholesaler in Australia, retail is always a big step up for the convenience/ease and the several layers of "wholesale" that it went through. (insert rant about market segmentation and pricing of polyethylene bottles....)

author: Brumby
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 24, 2020, 01:03:15 pm
content: I'm feeling quite pleased with myself. I bit the bullet and went for 5 litres of 100% IPA for $45, delivered. This was a few days before IPA went ballistic.A week after I'd ordered, the tracking had shown no movement, so I asked the seller what was happening. This was especially concerning as the listing had vanished. I got a response saying their supplier had run out and they were sourcing alternatives. They asked me if I wanted to wait - or cancel. By this time, there were offerings of IPA on eBay for stupid prices - so telling them I would wait was a no-brainer.Just over two weeks after ordering, it turned up. I could have sold it for more than $500 ... but I wanted the IPA.I was encouraged to offer some to the household for "cleansing purposes". Subtle as a brick, that was.