Where can you buy carbon tetrachloride?

Answer 1

You can try looking for it using its newer name, tetrachloroethylene. Many different online chemical suppliers carry it under that name.

Also, several automotive cleaning products use tetrachloroethylene as their primary ingredient, but there are probably other solvents mixed in, so they may not work for your purposes. I'll give a couple of examples.

At an auto parts store (or the automotive section of Wal-Mart), look for spray cans of "Electrical Contact Cleaner", and read the fine print on a can to make sure it uses tetrachloroethylene.

You can also look for spray cans of "Brake Parts Cleaner", but many of those just use a blend of petroleum-based solvents. If the can says "non-chlorinated", it's the wrong stuff. If it DOESN'T say "non-chlorinated", read the fine print and look for tetrachloroethylene.