Quote Originally Posted by Robin Hewitt View Post
I have always bemoaned the fact that you can't buy chloroform in this crappy country, making it hard to cement acrylic with an optically clear joint.
I just bought a litre of lab grade chloroform on Bay of Fleas, shipped from Italy of all places.
Do you think it will get stopped by Customs? Even so, jolly exciting what!
Pretty tame!, I bought some chemical from a supplier on eBay from a certain country that does great sweet&sour with egg-fried rice (having previously been declined from UK chemical suppliers), used for many things dodgy, but for me for use as an activator for through-hole plating of PCBs. Recognising the potential nefarious use of the chemical the supplier photographed it "pre-post" then relabelled it as something altogether different before dispatch. Unbelievably dodgy, but it worked. I don't think I'll try that one again.