SHL BRAND ISOPROPANOL IPA Isopropyl Alcohol 99.9% Pure (1 Litre) 1000 ml

This stuff is pretty great, I bought it about 8 months ago and use it often and for many things and I still have about 20% left, its definitely great value for money, another benefit is you can add water to dilute it if for some reason 99% is too concentrated or strong. - The good: 1. Sterilising, as far as I understand it will kill germs as long as you allow it to dry and evaporate on its own which it doesn't take long, between a few seconds and a few minutes depending on how you use, best to not use a cloth. 2. Cleaning, I've used it so far to clean off dirt, dust, permanent marker, ink, smudgy fingerprints, leftover sticky residue (from tape, stickers etc), oil and even light rust (it can't 'fix' rust, but it can clean off the worst of it, if wanted), I've used it for many more things but I think the current list is long enough to get the general idea. 3. Cheap, it's seriously good value, I use it very, very often and still have some left, I think it's amusing that when I first got it I thought 1 litre was far too much for what I needed and it would never get used. 4. Safety-cap, I suppose it is worth mentioning the cap is a safety cap, you need to apply downward pressure and turn to open it, but really... if you have kids you should make sure they never get their hands on it anyway. 5. Repairs, well not so much repairs but it is suitable for PC work and hardware, I messed up a thermal paste application to an AMD CPU once and got it on the pins, I poured a small amount of the alcohol into a shallow plastic tub and put the CPU in pin-side down, gently shaked it for about 2 minutes and then removed it, I then got another tub and filled it with fresh clean alcohol, placed the CPU in again to clean it off and then allowed it to air dry, thankfully the CPU worked fine after I installed it, however please do not take what I've said for granted, maybe I got lucky as I only did the alcohol bath as a last resort and the gold plating is permanently discoloured but seems to be working fine nonetheless. The bad: 1. Fumes, probably to be expected at 99.9% pure but the fumes are pretty damn strong, if you keep about a metre away you probably won't smell it but if you have to work very near it, like when it's been applied to a facial pad to clean something, you may want to try holding your breath and turn your head away from it to take a breath, I'm not kidding, it really is that strong.

I use this for cleaning 3D prints made with any non-water-washable resins. It will also remove residue from water washable resin, so I use it for general cleaning of the printer and accessories too. The price is reasonable, and about the cheapest I could find in a liter bottle. Buying in larger containers is more cost-effective, but I mainly use water-washable resins, so I didn't think I'd need more than a liter. How wrong I was... I also discovered that this IPA will remove acrylic paint from plastic miniatures and models, without any detrimental effect to the plastic or the glue used. It doesn't seem to affect epoxy or superglues either, so it's ideal for stripping old metal miniatures without them falling apart. I found that a five-minute soak in IPA and a scrub with a toothbrush was enough to bring a miniature back to bare plastic or metal. Finally, I have used this IPA to 'resurrect' many old miniature paints - particularly those in the octagonal pots used by Games Workshop years ago. If the paint is gooey but not completely solid, a small amount of IPA will thin it back out without making it watery. Oh, and because it takes old paint off, it's great for rescuing old brushes, and even cleaning up the work station. Basically, this stuff is incredibly useful for any sort of modelmaking and minature painting, and I really don't know why I've never come across it before.

My primary need for this was to clean old electronics and computer components, but I also dabble in model making, so I was happy to go for the highest alcohol variant I could get. I'm really happy with it, and even though I've been using it for months, I'm not halfway through the bottle yet. It's a good, sturdy bottle too -- really important if you don't always practice good desk discipline, and sometimes knock things over (I'm admitting nothing here...). The smell is not too unpleasant, but really you'll want a well-ventilated area to use this in, as if you leave the bottle open you're going to get a headache and maybe lose a few brain cells. My only wish was that I could stock up on a little more, which I don't really advise at the moment -- when I bought it in October 2019, it was under £8, but looking at the price today I can see there's a hefty 50% extra on top of that. I'm not going to knock any stars off, because what I paid when I bought it is a very fair price, but I might not be as kind if I bought it today.

I bought this having had some issues airbrushing acrylic paints. Thinning with a proprietary thinner wasn't giving me the results I expected, so after some research on the internet I found several references to making thinners at home from Isopropyl Alcohol (IPA), water, acrylic drying retarder and acrylic flow improver. This has worked perfectly for me, and is also brilliant for cleanup of the airbrush at the end of a session. As with most chemicals, care has to be taken when using it - I always wear a good quality mask and an airbrush cleaning station to catch most of the nasties when running the IPA through afterwards. Best of all, compared to proprietary thinners, this works out incredibly cheap to use and in my view works much better. It even got an old De Vilbiss airbrush that had been left full of congealed paint as clean as a whistle and spraying well again, where ordinary thinners had failed to make any difference. Add in the fact that it's a brilliant cleaner for so many things and I know I'll be a regular purchaser.

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Lots of uses

The bottle of Isopropanol was delivered promptly and was intact without any damage. It comes with a childproof cap which was easy to remove by pressing down whilst unscrewing. I used it to clean a mirror and I'm confident that it is pure because it didn't leave any trace of a deposit or film. I bought it for cleaning glass and degreasing a wide variety of surfaces and for this it is excellent. Please note that one reviewer claimed the bottle does not contain a full 1 litre and included a picture showing that it only weighed 824 grams, including the bottle. However, Isopropanol does not weigh as much as water and 1 litre of isopropanol will only weigh 785 grams, not 1000 grams like water would. I weighed the 1 litre that I received and including the plastic bottle it weighed 838 grams so I'm quite sure I did actually receive a full 1 litre. Isopropanol is a fairly safe solvent to use on most plastics but will effectively dissolve oil and grease and stick residues left by some labels. Some reviewers have mentioned using it to remove nail (polish) but the proprietary products that you buy for this contain acetone, which is not the same as isopropanol. Acetone will melt some plastics. Note that whilst it is safe to use on most surfaces it is flammable. When rating I was prompted to award a star rating for adhesion and scent. I've rated them as 5 although it is not a glue so doesn't actually adhere to anything and it smells like isopropanol should which isn't unpleasant but not the scent you would want like perfume.

I used this for cleaning an old cassette deck and VHS player, cassette deck: it improved the quality massively and brought back the high frequencies in the cassette, also improves signal to noise ratio and will help your machine to last longer. My cassette deck is a Technics M222 from 1982 and had NEVER been cleaned since getting this, it's my dads old tape deck and he said after cleaning it he said sounded better than when it was brand new! luckily it was worth salvaging as it uses MX heads and is all metal much higher quality than modern decks. I used this product with LOTS of cotton buds, can recommend cleaning the pinch roller at least 3-4 times...that was where most of the crap came from. I went through over 10 cotton buds for the whole process. VHS: I cleaned only the places where the tape passes through, e.g capistans, pinch roller etc. you must NEVER touch the drum with the 4 heads in with cotton buds, always use paper eg a business card (dipped in alcohol) instead... after cleaning the picture quality is now superb, with no flickering and improved sound and visual quality. I can watch videos again and enjoy them as if they are new. other uses have been to remove gunk and crap off things when nothing else works, for example on my mouse the sweat eventually creates this solid slime stuff that isopropyl alchohol just melts through...like a boss!