rectified benzine

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Can I use benzine for dilution of my enamels?
The very aggressive healthy lacquer thinners to the plastic.
thank you very much

Walter Rio de Janeiro Brazil

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I wouldn’t recommend it… I’ve never worked with it, but my impression is that benzene is some bad stuff healthwise. Use paint thinner (also known as mineral spirits). Paint thinner and lacquer thinner are not the same; paint thinner is clear, while lacquer thinner has a yellowish tint to it (at least here in the states it does).

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Thank you very much
The thinners here, are aggressive, he has to use masks of activated coal.

The pure benzine doesn’t count benzene, he is practically a hydrocarbon alifatic, and it doesn’t attack the plastic of the kit.

I have a lot of doubts as for his use.

Here in the brazil the personnel uses also flowed of lighter that is naphtha of petroleum.

Valter Santos Rio de Janeiro Brasil

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Since I don’t have a Portuguese dictionary, I don’t know if “benzine” translates to English “benzene”, but if it does, don’t use it! Benzene is a known carcinogen and should not be handled without proper safety equipment, like gloves, eye protection and a laboratory fume hood.

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Rectified Benzine…sounds like some sort of suppository.

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For those who want to know…
Rectified Benzine is another name for refined petroleum naphtha (also called petroleum ether). It’s the fraction obtained in the distillation of petroleum, and has a boiling point range of around 70-120 degrees C, with Heptane (C7H16) being the primary constituent. VM&P (varnish makers and painters) naphtha is of this variety. This material is a primary ingredient in oil-based enamel paints and thinners. It can be safely used as a paint thinner.

It’s not to be confused with the aromatic and carcinogenic Benzene (C6H6), which is used to manufacture ethylbenzene, which, when catalyzed, makes styrene!

This information wlll be useful if anyone’s ever on Bowling for Dollars…

Gip Winecoff

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I gave up on being insisting on that

I used Varsol again (mineral solvent), I diluted 1/1 with synthetic enamel, and I applied with pressure of 22psi, was good, to hope to dry 12 hours and to pass sandpaper 2000, to remove the dust.

I pass evil of health, when I use thinner for lacquer nitrocelulose, and it always attacks the plastic of the kit, and I don’t feel also calm using that product.

In my country the own thinner for the hobby are expensive, we see her with that he has.

I use testors, revell, and common enamel of painting gate.