[Nike Air]

Anyone any ideas of how not to waste liquid Chalk that has turned into the consistency of cheese.
Especially friction lads liquid Chalk..
Can you just add more alcohol, if so what type.. Not talking making a fondue...

Or can you put the container in hot water to bring it back to life?

[JamieG]

Retsina? Get a little bit of that cheeky pof style grip. :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retsina

Jokes, aside I presume you can add a little cleaning/medical alcohol, which you can buy almost 100% pure easily and cheaply online. I would just go easy since it would be messy if you added too much.

[wasbeen]

Anyone any ideas of how not to waste liquid Chalk that has turned into the consistency of cheese.

Rockfort I guess?

[Ally Smith]

Can you just add more alcohol, if so what type...

Or can you put the container in hot water to bring it back to life?

Hot water won't work.

You need to add some more solvent.  Isopropyl alcohol ("rubbing alcohol" or IPA available fairly cheaply from Amazon etc) would be best.  A cheap shortcut would be alcohol hand sanitiser but this has some thickener in it which much leave some residue and fell slimey.

Experiment with hand sanitiser in a small batch and switch to IPA if you're not getting the results you wanted?

[Oldmanmatt]

Can you just add more alcohol, if so what type...

Or can you put the container in hot water to bring it back to life?

Hot water won't work.

You need to add some more solvent.  Isopropyl alcohol ("rubbing alcohol" or IPA available fairly cheaply from Amazon etc) would be best.  A cheap shortcut would be alcohol hand sanitiser but this has some thickener in it which much leave some residue and fell slimey.

Experiment with hand sanitiser in a small batch and switch to IPA if you're not getting the results you wanted?

But not Brew Dog IPA, coz it’s rank.

[Nike Air]

Cheers lads I will give that a go. Seems a waste to not bring the good stuff back to life. The friction labs liquid Chalk is amazing but it does dry out in the tube very fast.
Just a thought would mixing it with some cheaper liquid Chalk work?

[Fiend]

This should have been a poll based solely on the thread title (and without context)!!

[rjtrials]

 I end up adding a bit of 91% isopropyl to my friction labs liquid Chalk to refresh it at the end of its lifespan.

[SA Chris]

Cheers lads I will give that a go. Seems a waste to not bring the good stuff back to life. The friction labs liquid Chalk is amazing but it does dry out in the tube very fast.
Just a thought would mixing it with some cheaper liquid Chalk work?

Like whisky blends, don't do it! Stick with single malts!

[Nike Air]

I end up adding a bit of 91% isopropyl to my friction labs liquid Chalk to refresh it at the end of its lifespan.

This worked brilliantly. Got some off of the Amazon and its done the trick.

Waste not want not hey