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[hipshot]

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if you only read ONE post today, make it this one.

we use this stuff like water, EVERY DAY!, it's a miracle no one in our shop has been killed by phosgene gas.

just jt

[Bloodbought1]

You need to fix the link. Great info. I had to copy and paste "all" of the link to get there.

 

Thanks for posting.

[DragonRider]

Your link didnt work, it wasnt higlighted all the way, but I found my way there.

 

Very important that we use the right tools for the right job. I had a similar experience once and gassed myself big time cleaning my garage. I used bleach on the garage floor to clean up after my dog messed it up with pee. The bleach reacted with the urine residue and formed chlorine gas and almost killed me, I had a hard time breathing and ended up with an upper respiratory infection for 2 weeks..........dont use chlorine for cleaning floors anymore.

http://www.brewracingframes.com/id75.htm

[RandyR]

www.brewracingframes.com/id75.htm

 

What he's saying is that tig welding (or other high heat sources) can cause brake cleaner (and maybe other cleaners) left on parts to become poisonous gases. In his case phosgene which is one of the poisonous gases used in WWI to kill or disable large numbers of soldiers.

[eazyduzzit]

I work at a Kenworth dealership, and nearly every repair order has a can of CRC #05089 brake cleaner on it.

I don't think there's much to worry about. Nobody in our shop has ever gotten sick from it in the 18 years I've been there.

[Gary N.]

I worked for years using Trichloroethane. This was long before WHIMIS (health and safety) training etc. The plant would buy it by the barrel full. We used it to clean just about everything. No rubber cloves either. Just soak the part and reach in and pull it out. We had squirt bottles we would use to spray down fixture gauges and then use an air hose to dry them off. No respirator or any breathing protection of any kind. Lots of the guys I worked with including myself, developed skin rashes. Many of the guys died young but nothing was ever attributed to the use of the chemicals.

Then one day they came along and removed all of it. Seems someone figured out how bad it was. Apparently it is also a carcinogen.

[pick]

ditto, we used toluene, acetone, benzene for cleaning hydrocarbons, used as any other solvent. so may others I can't even remember. Did remember having to wear gloves when we started with PCB's though........

[Guest Ken8143]

Your link didnt work, it wasnt higlighted all the way, but I found my way there.

 

Very important that we use the right tools for the right job. I had a similar experience once and gassed myself big time cleaning my garage. I used bleach on the garage floor to clean up after my dog messed it up with pee. The bleach reacted with the urine residue and formed chlorine gas and almost killed me, I had a hard time breathing and ended up with an upper respiratory infection for 2 weeks..........dont use chlorine for cleaning floors anymore.

 

http://www.brewracingframes.com/id75.htm

I wonder if the bleach reacted with the ammonia in the dog pee - ammonia + bleach = nasty WW1 gas.

[flb_78]

It can also be formed from burning refrigerants such as R134a and R12.

[Zfrebird4]

... my auto and motorcycle wrench guys.

 

JackZ