You don't use White Spirit in the States on account of it being dangerous? In a country where people can buy guns over the counter...

You wouldn't find a DIY shop or an ironmongers here which didn't have shelves full of bottles of the stuff. I wouldn't be without it.

No doubt in time the Health and Safety people will get round to banning it, and make us use more expensive substitutes with a much bigger profit margin, which won't do the job as well; and a few years down the line it'll turn out they're more dangerous.