Syd,
the reason that you can't buy Liquid Paper thinner any more is because the
various formulations were either carcinogenic (used toluene) or depleted the
Ozone Layer (trichloroethane or trichloroethylene). Most companies producing
correction fluid have now developed formulations that don't require thinning,
or have produced correction tape instead.
I don't rate your chances of getting the original chemicals, but you could try
conventional paint thinner or evenwhite spirit. Better though would be to get a
new bottle or correction pen or the tapes.
Paul Dodd
Docklands, Victoria
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On 12/01/2011, at 12:18 PM, Syd Curtis <> wrote:
>
> Apologies for a posting not about birds, but if answered, it might
> appreciably help b-aus subscribers.
>
> For decades I've been using some form of "White-out", "Liquid Paper" or
> whatever for minor corrections to typed pages. Over time, the material gets
> thicker and thicker until not really useable. I assume that some solvent
> evaporates and is lost each time the container is opened.
>
> It used to be easily fixed by adding "Thinner for Correction Fluid" ... but
> such thinner is no longer available, as far as I have been able to
> ascertain.
>
> Could it be that manufacturers of liquid paper have realised that they can
> sell a lot more of it if customers have to dispose of partially used bottles
> because the material is no longer useable?
>
> So I wonder whether some b-aus subscriber knows what chemical it was that
> formed the thinner? One might then buy it separately.
>
> TIA
>
> Syd
> (H.S. Curtis, Hawthorne 4171)
>
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