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Drinking Methylated Spirits

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Firstly, I should point out that I haven't had the balls to actually try it, I'm fairly sure its not actually illegal either.

But atm, I'm paying $60 for a litre of 43% ethanol (or wild turkey), when you can just buy 97% ethanol a litre from Woolworth for like $12.

So other than a bittering agent that they apparently add, what other health risks are associated with drinking methylated spirits? I mean, just adding 40ml to a cup of diet coke would have to be safe, right?

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This sounds like the worst idea ever. Would really not recommend that. I am not sure if there is something like a safe dose but I constantly hear stories about kids dying during their trips to Turkey because the bar owners cant afford to buy ethanol and take methanol instead. And most of those kids didnt even drink that much. It´s just very toxic. So yeah, there is probably a very large lists of health concerns, including losing your sight, liver or kidney failure, and so on.

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

Or Bitrex can taste fucked at 10ppm

But after looking at the MSDS I dunno what to say

Diggers just says water 2%/ethanol 98% http://www.recochem.com.au/files/downloads/Methylated_Spirits_Dec14.pdf

Masters says Methanol 2%/Ethanol 98% http://www.masteraustralia.com.au/documents/Master-MSDS-Methylated-Spirits.pdf

So you could drink diggers if it didn't have bitrex I guess

But if it was legal to distill you could distill the master brand stuff :/

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Other thing to think about is how its made

I think sometimes the solvent grade shit is cracked hydrocarbons

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@Glaukus

I've done extensive research and it turns out that Australian methylated spirits (diggers brand) doesn't actually contain methanol, just some bittering agent to make it unpalatable, apparently.

Honestly, I just want to get a kick out of life and not pay a small fortune. But I don't want to die a painful death either, which is why I'm asking the question.

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Buy some nutmeg, you can't get much cheaper than that per hour of intoxication If that's your main concern.

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I dont even have a smart ass comment for this. Terrible.

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But after looking at the MSDS I dunno what to say

Diggers just says water 2%/ethanol 98% http://www.recochem.com.au/files/downloads/Methylated_Spirits_Dec14.pdf

Masters says Methanol 2%/Ethanol 98% http://www.masteraustralia.com.au/documents/Master-MSDS-Methylated-Spirits.pdf

So you could drink diggers if it didn't have bitrex I guess

But if it was legal to distill you could distill the master brand stuff :/

Sorry, but I have to nitpick here. The Diggers MSDS actually says >95% ethanol/<5% water, not 98%/2%. And a good thing too. Beyond about 95-96%, you can no longer increase ethanol% just by distillation, you need to process it somehow involving benzene, which is bad bad news & certainly not something you want to be drinking. Which means that the Masters brand probably has reasons other than the methanol to be avoiding it.

The other issue with that MSDS sheet is that they don't mention a denaturing agent. I was pretty sure Diggers used bitrex, but if they don't have to list it, then they could use anything they like. From memory there were several more denaturing agents approved for use in Oz, and none of them were tasty (edit - just to clarify that comment: I believe the other things used were actually toxic solvents, not just "unpalatable" bittering agents)

Sub, care to share this extensive research with the rest of us?

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you really do lower the tone of this place subbie

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Fuck all the negativity, skull some metho and volunteer as a crash test dummy.

Live on the edge man.

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what a winner

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You wouldn't taste the bitterness rectaly... Alcohol soaked tampon up the poop shoot is the most common method... Could be lethal, but honestly, if you're doing that, you probably don't have much to live for anyway.

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Sub, care to share this extensive research with the rest of us?

Just google searches really. But apparently Diggers have claimed not to use any 'toxic' substances in there methylated spirits.

Kind of makes sense really, considering how much people would be drinking it. We're paying $60 for a 700ml bottle of 101 wild turkey in Australia. In the US they can buy a 1.75 litre bottle of 101 wild turkey for less than $50.

Us aussies are a pack of bitches, when it come to what we pay for drinkable ethanol!

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You wouldn't taste the bitterness rectaly... Alcohol soaked tampon up the poop shoot is the most common method... Could be lethal, but honestly, if you're doing that, you probably don't have much to live for anyway.

You know you've hit rock bottom when you're doing metho-pons. It's way down there with jenkem.

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personally I would have googled "how to distil" than "is metho safe to drink"

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personally I would have googled "how to distil" than "is metho safe to drink"

From what I've read you can't distill bitrex or whatever else solvents they use, since they have the same properties as ethanol.

But that's the whole point of my post. To find out if this is true, or if any of the solvents used are in fact toxic. Some of you may have a small fortune to blow on approved drinkable ethanol, but I don't!

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Aw, come on - I figure he could just be trying to honour the first rule of SAB club by posting this drivel rather than saying "I want to extract my powdered peyote with Diggers metho so I can sell it to schoolchildren, is this stuff food-safe?" - give him the benefit of the doubt. Or there's the "ignore member's posts" button, always good too.

Yep, distillation. However cheap metho is, sugar is even cheaper.

I don't think anyone has ever managed to get documentation from Diggers showing what they use, or their purity standards. If you can, more power to ya. In the meantime, you're betting your liver on what some guy on whirlpool said.

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From what I've read you can't distill bitrex or whatever else solvents they use, since they have the same properties as ethanol.

Ok, I take that back what I said about the benefit of the doubt. I'll leave my posts up there for others. Sub, if this is where your "extensive research" has gotten you, I don't think you need to worry about brain damage from denaturing agents.

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you could look into vanilla fridge wipe

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you're betting your liver on what some guy on whirlpool said.

True, it's kinda the point of my post. To ask people who actually know what there talking about.

Ok, I take that back what I said about the benefit of the doubt. I'll leave my posts up there for others. Sub, if this is where your "extensive research" has gotten you, I don't think you need to worry about brain damage from denaturing agents.

So I'll guess I should take that as your polite way of saying the solvents can be distilled.

Don't suppose your in the mood for describing a cheap way to achieve this?, lol.

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