Where can I find pure Xylene

[Rick]

Anyone?

 

[n8wvi]

Try a paint store. They'll also have toluene.

Dave

 

[Pablo]

Paint store is a good place or an old fashion hardware store (downtown)

 

[JohnBrowning]

Most any hardware store should have it.

 

[jakuraz]

May I ask what u intend to use it for ?

Here at work I have access to tons of it; infact I have to use it to clean the paint head every week.. lotsa full 50gallon drums around.

 

[eljefino]

probably wants to boost octane un-lead-ed-ly.

 

[MRC01]

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Originally posted by Rick:
Anyone?

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Home Depot sells Xylene for $10 per gallon. They stopped selling Toluene because it was being used illegally in drug labs.

 

[Pablo]

Neither my Home Dee-POT or sLowe's carry Toulene or Xylene anymore. Maybe a Washingtonian thing...

 

[Robbie Alexander]

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Originally posted by Pablo:
Neither my Home Dee-POT or sLowe's carry Toulene or Xylene anymore. Maybe a Washingtonian thing...

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Must be, they sell it here in Houston... was there last week looking ...

 

[Rick]

Yes I want to use it to boost octain.

 

[labman]

I have heard that moth balls work too. Just make sure they are the old fashioned naphthalene based ones and not the newer chlorinated stuff. Try burning some before putting in the gas tank. Better yet, get a little on a copper wire and stick it in a gas flame. If it turns brilliant green, it has chlorine in it, and you don't want it.

 

[MRC01]

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Originally posted by Pablo:
Neither my Home Dee-POT or sLowe's carry Toulene or Xylene anymore. Maybe a Washingtonian thing...

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Availability might vary locally.

In Washington you can get 92 octane at the pump (unlike here in CA). So why would you need Xylene?

 

[RobWest]

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Originally posted by MRC01:

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Originally posted by Rick:
Anyone?

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Home Depot sells Xylene for $10 per gallon. They stopped selling Toluene because it was being used illegally in drug labs.

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Gee, Toluene, just what I want in my drugs

You should be able to find Xylene at about any hardware or paint store.

 

[Pablo]

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In Washington you can get 92 octane at the pump (unlike here in CA). So why would you need Xylene?

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Old turbos (no knock sensor) with upped boost, 92 is hardly adequate. I have used Xylene a few times and found it to be quite nice.

 

[MolaKule]

Here is what you want:

4-Nitro-m-xylene, 99%
(2,4-Dimethylnitrobenzene , see 4-Nitro-m-xylene)

http://www.alfa.com/CGI-BIN/LANSAWEB?PROCFUN+WEBOEP+SRCHCHK+alf+ENG

BTW, and for future reference:

methylbenzenes = Toluenes
dimethylbenzenes = Xylenes

[ January 05, 2004, 11:57 AM: Message edited by: MolaKule ]

 

[MRC01]

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Originally posted by Pablo:

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In Washington you can get 92 octane at the pump (unlike here in CA). So why would you need Xylene?

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Old turbos (no knock sensor) with upped boost, 92 is hardly adequate. I have used Xylene a few times and found it to be quite nice.

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Makes sense. I use Xylene myself. Out here in CA, my Panoz Roadster's Ford Cobra V-8 pings on 91 octane so I mix in Xylene in a 1:15 ratio to get 92.5 octane.

 

[JohnBrowning]

Worst case just get some B-12 Chem Tool. It is mostly Xylene and Toluenes!!