Add to the cautions the fact that acetone is *EXTREMELY* flammable,
and burns with a nearly invisible blue flame. It's also
highly volatile (i.e. it disperses into the air rapidly) and
the resulting air-acetone mixture can be explosive. One thing
you wouldn't want to do, for example, is pour out some acetone
into a dish in a garage with a gas water heater.

Caliban wrote:

> Acetone, available in quart-size tins at Home Depot, Wal-Mart, etc. for
> under $5. Or maybe paint thinner, like the other poster said. Acetone's a
> bit more expensive but I prefer it for many clean-up jobs.
>
> Do not use acetone on plastic (it will melt the plastic). Also, it's not a
> big deal if you don't wear gloves, but try to minimize getting it on your
> hands. It dries out the oil in one's skin and is probably carcinogenic or
> some other flavor of nasty "toxicity."
>
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