Jackal
Rising Star
I was looking for easy way to cheep solvents no mather in witch country you live, and i found out that DCM can be easly extracted from paintstripers, but pantstripers can still be expensive i was looking for even cheeper way and than i found out that Lacquer Thinners contain toluene and MEK.
Average lacquer thinner contains mostly toluene with acetone, methanol, mek + other stuff at low concentrations. So if we wash lacquer thinner with some wather that should remove acetone/methanol and other solvents soluble in wather, than remaining stuf will mostly contain toluene. To get cleaner product this can be destiled while watching temperature of the vapor so if vapor reaches 111C we know that at this point toluene is evaporating and we can start colecting it and discarding stuff that was distilled while temperature of vapor was less than 111C and more than lets say 120C because it is possible that touluine could form anisotrope with some other compound.
On pictures are composition tables of some thinners with good stuff.
Average lacquer thinner contains mostly toluene with acetone, methanol, mek + other stuff at low concentrations. So if we wash lacquer thinner with some wather that should remove acetone/methanol and other solvents soluble in wather, than remaining stuf will mostly contain toluene. To get cleaner product this can be destiled while watching temperature of the vapor so if vapor reaches 111C we know that at this point toluene is evaporating and we can start colecting it and discarding stuff that was distilled while temperature of vapor was less than 111C and more than lets say 120C because it is possible that touluine could form anisotrope with some other compound.
On pictures are composition tables of some thinners with good stuff.