[TheForge] Fw: WD-40

[Andrew Vida]

gblacksmith wrote:
> Bob:  I use light mineral oil for hand sanding blades....I use the food 
> grade (for cutting boards,etc.) which is non toxic.  Grant

>>
>>> I was talking to a friend about solvents yesterday and DMSO came up.

	if you use DMSO as a solvent, you will very definitely want to use 
neoprene gloves.  DMSO is a very powerful transdermal vehicle, meaning 
that it absorbs into the skin at an incredibly fast rate, as in seconds, 
and takes anything dissolved into it along for the ride.  If you 
dissolve poison, the poison will be in your system in a matter of 
seconds.  In this respect, it can be very dangerous stuff.

	In the 1970s, London police seized "doom dots" in a drug raid.  Turned 
out that they were LSD dissolved in DMSO and saturated into some small 
spherical objects (porous).  The guys held them in their hands while 
wondering what they were.  Within a couple of minutes they found out and 
had to be treated for very large doses of the hallucinogen.  As it 
turned out, doom dots were supposed to be held for about 10 to 15 
seconds and then put away.  The cops had been holding them for several 
minutes.

	I use DMSO to make certain herbal extracts such as calendula for open 
wounds.  It is very powerful and should not be taken lightly.  It is 
also good for arthritis.  Arthritis was also the reason for the 
invention of WD-40.  It became a lubricant when its inventor could not 
get it approved as an arthritis medicine.