[TheForge] Forging of Chrome plated steel

[Larry]

Thanks Mike,  this sounds like what I had heard before, and as you are a first hand experience, I figure it must be accurate.  Hey! Got Milk? :-)

Larry

Mike Sweany wrote:

>  I spent half a life time welding chrome alloys, stainless steel and1.25% and 2% chrome alloy.
> Chrome makes things difficult to weld, chrome poisoning is possible, I retired from welding 2 years ago. It now makes me sick to weld for only an hour or so without breathing protection. Even if the metal I am welding contains no chrome.   I guess you could say I'm full of it.
> The thin plate should burn as you forge. You know you have enough chrome in your syatem when the back of your throat is raw, your sinus's are dry and everything you eat tastes like chrome.
> The short term treatment for this is drinking milk. Short term use will probably not affect you, it took years for it to affect me, 24 yrs as a matter of fact, but it almost killed me then.
>   Larry <bdragon@attglobal.net> wrote: Are there any serious risk's involved with forging of Chrome plated metal,
> such as old car bumpers? Seems to me I remember toxic problems similar to
> forging galvanized mentioned. Thanks!
>
> Larry