I once asked a pharmacist if I could buy ammonium nitrate in bulk. They had it, but would not sell it to me, so I walked right over to the pile of instant cool packs which had ammonium nitrate and a little pouch of water inside. You’re supposed to just break the water pouch and it gets cold when it mixes with the ammonium nitrate (endothermic)… they happily sold me their entire stock.
Maybe we should ban water and electricity… with just those two things I could recreate the hindenburg disaster!
Bit of a derail, but the Hindenburg disaster wasn’t primarily caused by the hydrogen, but by the aluminum-powder-based paint on the outer covering. It charged up with static while the dirigible was aloft, and the mooring line created a spark that ignited the whole affair when it touched the ground.
The hydrogen didn’t help of course…
Haha well sure… but like… when seen from that perspective, suicide bomber jackets aren’t the cause of the disaster either…
Here at least, they’re based on ethyl acetate and isopropyl alcohol
Not sure that’s any better for your purposes though 
Hope you find a suitable solvent!
This has been driving me crazy since I’ve been in Sweden! No hydrogen peroxide in the stores or Amazon and no Acetone… can’t do my own nails or hair easily. Definitely a first world problem but gets on my nerves like crazy.
In Canada you buy that in the dollar store.
Here in UK I was ID-d at the store when I bought some superglue.
I started to laugh so hard…
The cashier pressed a button for security! No joke!
…well actually joke…
The reason I started laughing because I just recently arrived in the UK and was unfamiliar with life in here. I went to the cheap shop to pick up bits and bobs for my new house. I was warned that I’ll be ID checked if I buy kitchen knife, so I brought passport with me.
I went to the cashier to check out, the lady put my stuff in the carrier bag, but the amount I was about to pay was surprisingly low.
-Can I see your ID, sir?
I was like: sure, but let me check if you got everything, because something is not okay with the price.
She was like: Whaa?
I’ma: The money! You must have forgotten something…
Boy, then I noticed the kitchen knife, she didn’t scan it. I smiled at her: You didn’t notice my knife, did you?
…she freaked the F out, no jokes
She said: Step back!
But dude, she was pale! I thought I have an insect on me or what?!
Security came…: Everything alright, sir?
Ima: Get that spider off of me, that freaked the living crap out of this lady!
The whole store is looking at us…
The security guy had long dreads. (me too) I asked him: Can you please check my hair? There’s gotta be something in it. It freaked out the cashier.
Then the lady: That was your knife!
So I took out the knife from my shopping basket and put that on the bench:
-See, she even forgot to check this out for me. I only noticed it cause the bill came like 20quid short.
The guy tapped my shoulder: There’s nothing in your hair, I’m sure. It was something under her hair… (pointing at Emily, the cashier)
I was like: K, so you didn’t see my knife, how on earth did you know you’ll need to see my ID.
She said: Super Glue
Boy, I started laughing so hard, the security came again.
I was like: Dude! You’ve gotta listen to this… Have you heard the joke about the superglue??
He was like: Nah, bring it up, bro!
K, ready? Here we go:
A: What do you eat?
B: Fast bonding superglue…
A: WHAAAT??!!
B: Fast bhmm-hmm hmmmm-pfmmm-bhmmmm.
We were laughing so hard the security from the neighbour shop came over to check if we were alright.
That was a true story!
The security guy h5-d me when we met again!
Here’s something else that’s disappeared and that’s really annoying: TCE-based metal degreasers. There’s nothing better to clean metal parts. But the European Union, in its infinite wisdom, decided that a cancer-causing chemical that’s usable for recreational purposes has no place in an industrial product. It is however still sold in small bottles as spot remover for grease stains on clothes in supermarkets, so that addicted teenagers can procure it easily and on the cheap. Stupidy stupidy…
Well, I tested with some household solvents, all of which should have had at least some effect according to a chemical compatibility chart for vinyl chloride (which is about 90% of PVCA - so I assumed it would apply). I tested credit card fragments overnight in 1ml each of ethanol. isopropyl alcohol, 20% acetic acid, toluene, oil based nail polish remover. No observed effect with any of them (delamination etc). I can think of a couple of reasons: low temperature: I kept them in a rather cool place overnight as not to flood my tiny apartment with noxious vapours. This usually impacts solubility; inaccurate source material; inapropriate conditions; different characteristics for PVCA. There is a theory that acetone is not only effective for dissolving the material, but that it thoroughly delaminates it and destroys it. Will think of something else in the meantime.
