Nitromors - What The Funerariculator?!!!

[Answerprancer]

It looks as though all the chemicals that *used to* actually strip paint have been nannied out of it!
I'm in the process of re-painting the body of a guitar and this stuff DOES NOT touch it! Half an hour with the stuff plastered all over the surface and it wiped off leaving it totally untouched.
Luckily I found an old tin of Wickes own brand and that works.
Has anyone else got any tales of woe regarding nannied DIY products?

[Buenchico]

There seems to be an analogy here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/47fLZ1JSrJKf6J7g6HJsNdj/the-white-paint-that-yellows

[Old_Geezer]

I felt the same about not being able to get Ronstrip, but found a substitute. Authorities seem to be wanting to stamp DIY out.

[Hypognosis]

I would love to know the back story as to why these things got banned but am not in the mood to read stories about toddlers guzzling the stuff
or damage to wildlife and so forth at this time on a Saturday night.

Sorry that this is more of a bookmark than an answer. I hate it when that happens.

[wolf63]

We once tried to get a paint stripper thingy to burn wallpaper off - didn't work.

I inherited all my dads DIY skills - he was fekkin' useless at it too.

I use the PAMTDI method of DIY - pay a man to do it (sexist perhaps, but true).

I have a good paint stripper - see my avatar.

[Answerprancer]

Someone told me that the reason Nitromors have changed their formula maybe due to advice from manufacturer watchdogs re possible use as a weapon.
I personally suspect it may be more to do with "elf and safety".

[bookbinder]

Sodium chlorate is difficult, if not impossible, to obtain. The stuff that is now alleged to kill weeds doesn't seem to be very good.
Creosote is not available any more. What I have to put on my fences is just cosmetic. It's no wonder that I'm gradually replacing my wooden fencing with plastic.

[Answerprancer]

Sodium chlorate AFAIR was banned (or at least mixed with a fire retardant) because it could be used to make explosives.
I wondered why I hadn't seen creosote for a while :-o
Damn ...I loved that smell!

[Answerprancer]

...phew!!
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=creosote&source=web&cd=7&sqi=2&ved=0CEMQFjAG&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.creosotesales.co.uk%2F&;ei=HTC8VLjdKcnzUIivgYgC&;usg=AFQjCNFRu4GztWqVLOaOif-l5pl7HY6NrQ&bvm=bv.83829542,d.ZWU

[Answerprancer]

...only available to traders but I'm sure this can be worked around.

[BlackadderV]

This alas, is not restricted to the world of DIY. Over the years I have notiv
ced that many 'active' ingredients in medicines have been removed, leaving you with little more than a placebo. Many simple, cheap and effective remedies have disappeared from the shelves. As has been said, over-enthusiasm on the part of elf 'n whatnot.

[BlackadderV]

Gone are the days when you could pop into the apothecary's for a tincture of laudanum to put on the baby's dummy.

[Answerprancer]

Hmm, one of the nannied things I miss the most is the original Victory V lozenges when they still contained ether and chloroform. I still rate these as my first drug experience as an 11 year old when I used to buy them by the half-pound.

[BlackadderV]

By the half pound? You must have been one little rich git, they used to sell at 4d per oz. Half a pound would cost you 3/8d, a month's pocket money for me.

[Answerprancer]

They were about 11p a quarter when I used to buy them in the mid 70s.

[Answerprancer]

I used to get 30p a week back then.

[BlackadderV]

Drugs are nothing new. I used to sniff carbon tetrachloride, a cleaning fluid when my mother was out. Soak a piece of cotton wool with it and you got about ten minutes of transportation to another world. This was in 1964.

[Answerprancer]

Yikes! I thought that stuff was seriously poisonous and attacks liver/kidneys?
I used to love the smell of that stuff emanating from dry cleaners.
That's another thing that's been nannied away from us ...and what happened to coffee roasting smells being extracted out onto the street, now I come to think of it?!!

[Answerprancer]

...oops, sorry - that's tetrachloroethylene.

[douglas9401]

"Half a pound would cost you 3/8d,..."

At 4d/oz, half a pound would cost 32d or 2/8.

[Wak]

I used to buy Soap Liniment (BPC 1973) Methylated Camphor for aches and pains from a market stall but can't find it anywhere these days.
Used to be made by Thornton & Ross. The firm is still operating but dont seem to supply the above anymore due to EU Regs.
I also used to but sodium chlorate like Answerprancer, but not any more.