Some common cleaners we may have around the workshop or garage can form deadly poisons if subjected to MIG or TIG welding.
Here's a link (loads slowly as it's a picture of an article in a magazine)
http://www.brewracingframes.com/id75.htm
Thanks Don!!!
Bruce
That looks like a bad one. Thanks, Don.
Thanks, Don. You may have saved someone's health or their life by taking the time to share that article. I forwarded it to a number of friends, and they will likely do the same.
H.
I use that stuff a lot.
It made me rethink what I use it for.
You have to be careful welding almost anything. If you use Remoil (gun oil) on something before you hit it with a torch you can get Phosgene gas as well and it don't tell you that on the can! It says "Contains Teflon lubricant" Which would be "polytetrafluoroethylene" or PTFE that at varying temps. creates a myriad of deadly gasses! I don't use Teflon pans anymore and I don't get the headaches I used to. After years of welding galvanized pipe panels I don't weld down wind EVER, Took a few bad sick days but I learned d* d* d*
Zinc from the gases given off by welding galvanized metal can not only make you sick right now, it can build up in your body over time.