Has anyone in Australia purchased a solvent from an industrial chemistry lab?

[reun]

Hi all,

I'm new here and I'm having a lot of trouble finding a clean non-polar solvent. I'm based in Australia, and regular naphtha brands (called "shellite" here) are failing the evaporation test. One yet unexplored avenue for me to look into is buying n-heptane from an industrial chemistry lab. Most of these do not sell to residential addresses; they require a business registration number to make such purchases, but some shady ones seem to sell these products to retail consumers. That said, I'm worried about going down this track. First, the transaction would look highly suspicious and I'm not sure whether this suspicion would culminate in anything. Second, it's a dangerous good that I'd be buying and I'm concerned about the delivery itself being a rather dramatic process somehow. However, perhaps I'm overthinking all this. If anyone from Australia has bought n-heptane or other chemical products from an undustrial chemist to a residential address, I'd love to hear from you.

Many thanks!

 

[blig-blug]

Is it illegal to buy heptane in Australia? If it's not, I wouldn't assume that the ones selling to consumers are shady. Heptane has many more uses than extracting DMT. I usually get it from retail lab supply stores (in Spain, so different laws) without issues. And, as I mentioned elsewhere, the delivery is always in a normal box, using a normal courier, in a normal truck. It could be different there, but I wouldn't assume it is.