Thanx Paul, for a most informative post.
I'm always suss of commercial alcohol
and its "dryness". Back home it's easy to
buy ethanol at any pharmacy and one can get
it near 100%.  But here in Oz it's strictly verbotten...

Never thought of using the drying crystals, though...

Cheers
Nuno Souto
nsouto@n...
http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/the_Den
----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Comino 
Sent: Wednesday, 9 June 1999 14:41
Subject: Drying alcohol (for shellac)


>
> A Galoot-friendly method is to use "molecular sieves".  These "sieve"
> materials are adsorbent crystalline zeolites in the form of pellets or
> beads with tiny "holes" in them that you can hardly see.   (:
>