Now they tell me, brake cleaners
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Don't light it on fire either....
I also read a piece on the same basic thing.
It was about cleaning metal with brake clean before a weld. The fumes can cause some bad symptoms.
BDnFL
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Another good read.
Guys, especially young ones should be aware of what they are breathing and the chemicals that touch their skin.
I worked for a gov. facility built in the late 50’s. Asbestos and other crap everywhere in ceilings and mechanical rooms.
Genetics
Diet
Environmental will change the course of one’s life.
b-body-bob
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This is pretty much the definitive internet warning post:
Safety Alert! Brake Cleaner = Phosgene Gas
Modern formulations are de-chlorinated.
Safety Alert! Brake Cleaner = Phosgene Gas
Modern formulations are de-chlorinated.
j-c-c-62
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About 12? years ago had one of my coworkers drive a forklift fork thru the alum front rail of my Featherlight car trailer. Made a 4" gash in the rail, easily tig welded. So after brake cleaner cleaning and SS wire brushing, and waiting hours completely outside in the Florida sun, wearing a full welding helmet, I Tig welded up the damage. Maybe a 1/2hr? tops welding time. What could go wrong?
In a million years I would never had expected any brake cleaner residue to be present to give me the reaction it did.
A day later I seemed to fully recover.
The stuff is bad news and very stealthy if used in any weld prep situation from my experience.
Lacquer thinner/acetone is my normal go to for pre weld Alum cleaning, but I wanted something pressurized to better clean the crack.
Bad decision.
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Daves69
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Way back when I magged aircraft and locomotive piston pins for a living, we were washing them in a large vat of trichlor. We used it by the drum................... for years.
Just finished up my last store bought home use can recently from the early 90's.......
Just finished up my last store bought home use can recently from the early 90's.......
Tony Tee
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I knew something caused my dain bramage !?
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I watch some of these guys like Vice Grip and they way they handle chemicals and always wonder if they are gonna get terrible news someday.
b-body-bob
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I was careless, and don't know if it was involved but I had to fight off cancer when nobody else in my family had a history of it.
It also could've been from my youth playing at the city dump when it was used by a local dye company. The puddles of slop were all the colors of the rainbow. Free bike parts though!
111-trichlor...
Used it in a 100 gallon vapor degreasor in the early 90's when I worked in Brooklyn. Ozone depleting but supposedly was not a carcinogen. Had to stop using due to new DEP regs. Was recommended (by same) to switch to Trichlorethylene. Safe for environment ... not so much for the operator! Cancer was only one of its bad effects on the human body.
torredcuda
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Pretty much every manmade chemical is bad to breathe in or get on your skin.
My first job in a precision sheet metal shop I worked the large degrease tank sometimes, it was filled with trichlor and had a fog that floated near the top - no charcoal resprirator and sometimes no gloves. Like most in those days we either didn`t know the risks or were young, dumb and "invincible".
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