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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Syd,
Congratulations on what would have to be the most obscure off-topic posting in birding-aus history. Hopefully the Birding-aus team organise awards this year, cause I think your entry would have to be a shoe in for one!
To be helpful though, if you do a search a search on Google, one of the 46,000 results for thinner for correction fluid would surely have the answer you are looking for. Alternatively, I find Marbig’s ‘sidewinder’ correction tape to be most useful and a significant improvement on previous corrections fluids. Even oldies like myself need to move with the times.
Back to birding though, I managed a trip down to Werribee over the Christmas break and what a great day it was. Stilt Sandpiper, Terek Sandpiper were newies for me. If only I lived down in the south of the state. I could visit such a great spot more often, and perhaps even get an eyeball of Laurie’s Short-tailed Eagle. I didn;t see many further posts regarding this sighting. Did anyone chase it up?
Regards Moses Moutin
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How are you going Syd
You may want to try an organic solvent such as “Fingernail polish remover”. Contains liquid acetone, which is a quickdrying organic solvent compatible with many correction fluids on the market. Another common solvent is isopropyl alcohol that might be worth a try.
Regards
Ian
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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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