Mineral Spirits vs Acetone | How and When to Use | This or That DIY 

Great video! Glad you touched on flammability, toxicity and disposal. Good examples of using the products. Keep up the good work!

Nice info and Happy Mothers Day! Just wanted to add, I use Acetone often for my finishing work. Investing in chemical gloves and a chemical mask from the home box stores I can't stress enough, should be under $20 bucks. Breathing the vapors and getting any solvents on your hands is not good. Stay safe :)

Happy Mother's Day! I love how you get right into it, tell us the difference -- clearly and in simple language for us budding DIY'ers. Hope the weather in MN is warming up - it finally got warm here in CT. All the best.

Thank you for this great video. So many people irresponsibly dispose of hazardous waste. I hope your watchers follow your guidance.

I had no clue about Acetone or what it was. But I have to clean a metal frame and now I know it is better to use acetone then mineral spirits. Thanks for this info.

When removing the adhesive used in caulking strips, an adhesive designed to resist polar solvents since water is a polar solvent, mineral spirits work far better. Gum or any type of gummy material dissolves when scrubbed with it.

Beautiful and with so many great information. I use Acetone but forgot that I should not use on plastic.

Good information. It hadn't occurred to me that I was smelling nail polish remover as I took the varnish off my wood project. Thanks!

Great explanation! Also great that you cover safety and safe disposal of these products. Thank you!

If you lay it out to evaporate, place a piece of hardware cloth or screen over it so animals can't try to drink it, please.

I use acetone to remove natural oils from woods like bloodwood before finishing with tung oil. The tung oil won't absorb effectively if the natural oils are left in the outer layers.

Good info. I get confused by these products as well. The spontaneous combustion is a good point worth remembering.

Thank you so much, you just saved me from a big potential mistake. I wanted to use acetone to remove super glue on my sofa

Hi Melissa! Thank you! excellent information. Happy Mother’s Day 😊

I work at a textile coating factory. Mineral (or white) spirits is meant for harder solvent works while methyl ethyl ketone could be used more lightly. Spirits is irritant and needs to be used with gloves. Acetone not so much, but please clean your hands with soap and water afterwards.

When painting metal a good cleaner is Brake Clean (Kleen) It's also a great hornet/wasp killer.

If you use a towel in linseed oil and then you just toss that towel aside it can and often does catch fire all on its own because it generates heat

We love your videos, Melissa, my wife has developed a girl crush!

Hi thank u so much for your video! Question: If i want to remove an old oil stain from the wooden floor, which one should I choose? Thank u ahead for helping me!

Thanks. Well done. I've been wondering about the difference lately.

Thanks Melissa! Just bought a can of acetone to try to degrease and clean the paint on my cars and then repaint them after. Can't thank you enough for me to get a primer before using and hopefully not misusing the acetone.

Also the big box stores need to sell a small bottle for small projects. The only container I saw was like a half gallon.

Great vid thanks for all the hints and tips thanks for making and posting 👍

Good morning and happy Mother’s Day, from a loyal friend . Did I tell ya I hit 1k finally . Thanks fro all your help .

Very informative video...I appreciate the knowledge you have about many different products...thanks

Can I use Acetone to clean off wax from a piece of furniture before I get ready to paint it? If yes, do I go directly to paint after the acetone has dried? Thanks

Great content. Thank you.

Happy Mother"s Day. Have a great day. Great info.

What I FANTASTICLY informative video! Thank you so much!!

Never thought of using acetone for cleaning flux residue. Will give it a try. But I do know acetone affects plastics so I wonder if it would mess up some components having plastic components (not sure which type of plastics it would affect to be honest). My main use for acetone is very specific. I use it to clean up contact adhesive residue seeping out from the edges after applying teak on melamine boards on my wood working projects. Oddly enough, from my understanding the teak I am using is mostly made of some type of PVC (comes in different thicknesses) but the acetone does not mess up the teak nor the melamine boards. I have tried it on a different quality of blockboards too. I don't know the actual material its made from but the sellers over in my country call it "gelcoat" or "polyester" boards. I prefer to stay away from it unless a customer wants it (since it tends to be cheaper) because the surface gets easily dented/pressed-in.

i use mineral spirits in my pressure stoves as kerosene substitute. Its waaay cheaper and burns way cleaner.

very helpful, thanks.

Very informative and helpful, thank you

Well researched and explained. Thanks!

Useful and nice presentation 👍

Great informative video!

What is better to go through plastic, vinyl or nylon?

Which one would be best to remove fabric backing from PVC?

Very good video. Thanks!

Thank you for posting 🤝

Sooo, where might turpentine (the kind from a tree) fit into this conversation?

Very useful info .. Thanks

Very useful video thanks. So would acetone be best for removing oil paint mistakes?

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Ok I can clean off the mineral spirits with acetone on rusted metal to get ready for paint

Thank you!

That was helpful.

So helpful to know. Just subscribed for more tips 😀@Motivated Mimi

Will these products clean latex paint off of concrete?

Hi I used mineral spirits on my dinning table after a paint stripper but it left awful smell. Can you suggest any product that might help to get rid of the odour?

Thank you

What you recomend to clean a oil base paint to a sprayer tip?

Wow. Truly pretty.

mineral spirits and thinner are same? Right?

Can I use acetone to dissolve standard wood stain and then stain pvc with the mix?

What is the solvent for varnish?

I used acetone in my wood stainer for a backyard fence and it seems that it made the finish darker? Am I wrong in thinking it did that, or is it because it came out more abundantly by virtue of its thinner form. That is, did I simple have more stain on the wood? Have you noticed it darkens finishes?

Hi,,,

I had no idea mineral spirits was toxic, they tell you to use mineral spirits for cooking surfaces like cutting boards and butcher blocks to clean and seal them. 😮 I know acetone is basically finger nail polish remover, I never would’ve guessed mineral spirits were more toxic. Is that dangerous or do you just need to let it evaporate and then it’s safe?

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hi Melissa

Do you have any ideas for removing motor oil from your garage floor?

Can mineral spirit be used to restore hard stiff brushes??

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Love your vids! Question-I wash my brushes after soaking them in mineral spirits and when I run the water through the brushes to wash them the absorbed mineral spirits ago down my drain. I don’t pour the container of Mineral spirits down the drain but whatever was left in the brush when I wash out the brush is going down the drain. Is that amount going to be dangerous? What would be a better resolution for this? Thank you in advance😊

can't stand the smell of white spirit makes me really nauseous

Waow....you are sooo beautiful....

Wo she is really cute!

One exciting side effect of inhaling Acetone vapors is permanent damage to your central nervous system

Highlights, you trying to shake the prego off huh....lol

acetone + transmission fluid together makes penetrating fluid for rusted bolts 2 Esdras 4:1-100

mmmmmja... thanks for the information, I like the method you proposed. .... OORAH!!🦘

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