anyone try this?

[Jesjen829]

i recently heard that denatured alcohol is an approved method of flushing linesets. just curious if anyone has tried this and what are your thoughts on this? thx, jesse

[chuckcrj]

New one to me... I know it would evaporate readily, but would it leave any residue?

[Baycienda]

Alcohol is a water based product. If you take cracked corn, yeast, sugar, ferment it in water and heat it you will get alcohol. But it still has to pick up water. I wish it was that easy and cheap. I bet if you take a look at a can of flush one of the major ingredients is some kind of alcohol though. I wouldn't try it.

[Baycienda]

But then again, what does denatured truly mean?

[chuckcrj]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denatured_alcohol

[mark beiser]

I think Denatured alcohol, aka. methylated spirits, would make a good flush solvent for situations where you can gravity feed it through refrigerant lines that don't have any traps or dips where it can puddle.
You would have to be super careful what formulation you are getting.
There are different grades and formulations, you would want some that is low/no moisture content, and has no oil based additives.

In it purest form, denatured alcohol is just ethanol with methanol added to it to make it poisonous, but usually other additives are used with, or instead of the methanol, which is where you can run into problems.

[Baycienda]

You mean there are companies out there that kill good alcohol to make money? Them bastards.

[mark beiser]

You mean there are companies out there that kill good alcohol to make money? Them bastards.

Blame the gubmint!
Denatured alcohol probably would not exist as products for sale if the production and distribution of ethanol was not highly regulated and taxed.
There isn't anything denatured alcohol can do that ethanol cant, but in order for it to be legal to sell in hardware stores as a solvent and paint thinner, it has to be rendered poisonous.:(

[Bob_Scaringe]

Alcohol is a water based product. If you take cracked corn, yeast, sugar, ferment it in water and heat it you will get alcohol. But it still has to pick up water. I wish it was that easy and cheap. I bet if you take a look at a can of flush one of the major ingredients is some kind of alcohol though. I wouldn't try it.

Just so you know there is no alcohol of any type in QwikSystemFlush and of you check out the independent test results done by both a university and a testing lab they both show that it is better at removing acid, oil, and water than any other product on the market. It also cost less than any other flushing product. It is also non flammable and non toxic.

If you want some history, it was developed to clean the oxygen breathing systems in air force fighter jets once R11 and R113 became outlawed by the EPA. It is patented and the only flush using that formulation. ALL the other major flushing solutions use a DuPont cleaner so they are essentially very similar to each other except on price and labeling

[Jesjen829]

But then again, what does denatured truly mean?

from what i understand it has some kind of additive in it so you cant drink it.