International Paints: Diluents

charles_reed said:
I'm glad I'm not having to treat anyone who's swallowed any of the following:

Thinners #1, #3 and #9. Trying the usual internet sources have brought up the equivalent of "You what?".

My guess is that last contains xylol.
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You can't have looked very carefully, all the information is clearly available on International's website. Here are the data sheets for #1, #3 and #9.

And your guess about xylol seems unfounded.
 
It should be pointed out that xylol is another name for xylene or dimethyl benzene.
It is probably a constituent of the naphtha that is thinners no 1
 
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pvb said:
You just need to look at the product page for a particular product - links to data sheets are at the bottom of each page.
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Last time I waned to find out the composition of some international thinners, you couldn't get it from their UK website. You had to go to the american one and get it there - probably because they have much stricter environmental protection laws than us.
 
The safety data sheets, with details of composition, have been available on the uk website for some time. In fact International yachtpaints have been one of the better suppliers at providing MSDS on line.

There is a risk in using info for other counties that the product composition may be different. You can even find variations to comply with individual state laws sometimes!

There is a link from the front page, http://iyp.yachtpaint.com/uk/ to a data sheet finder so it is not even necessary to go to the individual product page first in order to find them.
 
pvb said:
The link works for safety data sheets, but doesn't seem to work for product data sheets - you have to go to the product pages for those.
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Its a bit picky about what it accepts as a keyword.

Enter thinner and you get a list of all the thinners to choose from for example
 
VicS said:
Its a bit picky about what it accepts as a keyword.

Enter thinner and you get a list of all the thinners to choose from for example
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Yes, that's my point. If you enter thinners in the product data sheet search it doesn't find anything.
 
I thought you were complaining it did not work at all.

It does work. It is just picky about what you stick in the keyword box

Put in thinner no.1, or just no.1 and it is happy but it wont accept it without the full-stop or with a space before the 1

It accepts thinner, or just 1 as well, or even just no

But thinners, with an "s" on the end, it does nor recognise ... I guess because there is no product with thinners in its name.
 
But, strangely, the safety data sheet search works with both thinner and thinners! International don't seem to know whether to put an s on the end or not - they use both thinner and thinners in their product names.
 
VicS said:
It should be pointed out that xylol is another name for xylene or dimethyl benzene.
It is probably a constituent of the naphtha that is thinners no 1
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I'll concur with you Vic, the #3 is mostly DiMethyllBenzine.
Xylene has had such a bad press that they have now renamed it "Universal Thinners" for the refinishing trade. I guess that very few car body shops read the MSD's.
It is only necessary to take a few precautions when using it. If you are spraying it you should defo be booted and suited and using a #3 type mask
 
It's amazing how the old and new nomenclatures cause so much confusion - they did it to a whole raft of BNF drugs as well.

All I was trying to do was to get to an acceptable Greek substitute for varnish (#1, being white spirit with a few methylated benzene molecules), for antifouling (#3, here it's mainly xylene-based as in Italy) and #9 for UCP (for the last I've ended up with 2-pot solvent). I was going to use cellulose thinner for the last, it dissolves most things (including the steel can it was in).
 
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