methylated spirits

Your store clerk needs to go walk around a hardware store. They are full of cans labeled "Mineral Spirits". I'll be glad to take a picture of the label on a can if he can't find one.

Sorry, I don't know if methylated spirits can be used to thin enamels or not.

Return the stuff as soon as you can, tominator! As the ff. link will tell you, methylated spirits is just another name for denatured alcohol:

http://www.tipking.com/tip/5670.html

Now somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but denatured alcohol is a thinner for varnish, not oil-based enamels. DA is a mixture of ethyl alcohol and methyl alcohol, which are both soluble/mixable in water but not in oil. So in effect, the DA will not mix with your enamels at all. It may work as a thinner for aqueous acrylics, but I'm not sure since I haven't tried it yet. Hope this helps.

Cheers,
onyan

hey thansk for the help ppl's!!
last nitght i found out the hard way... i added it to some enamel paint and this big glob of paint formed.... and it doesnt deform plastic atall.. anways i gots some methylated spirits last night and they do the job perfect....