[TheForge] Safety concerns - zinc

[Dan Tull]

Also, don't use pressure treated for spoon swage( hot metal) as it has 
arsenic in it.


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From: "Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer" <artgawk at thegrid.net>
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Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 2:46 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Safety concerns - zinc


> We are all worried about Jim, a great hearted smith.
> Let's add paint or plating that has cadmium or lead in it to the don't 
> burn list...that's most older stuff that was painted for exterior 
> use..that stuff has a less immediate but more lasting consequences. Most 
> all of it is cumulative.
>  Sorry, I make a funny looking Jewish mother...Pete F
>
> Ron Childers wrote:
>> Bill keeps us in *stiches* with tails of his misadventures but something
>> happened recently to a friend of mine that is "deadly" serious.
>>
>> We have all burned the zinc off galvanized metal and gotten away with it
>> with no apparent ill effects. Jim Wilson, however, was inside a closed 
>> shop,
>> burning it off with a torch- he knew better; in fact, he sent his helper 
>> out
>> of the shop because he knew it was dangerous. We like to think we are
>> indestructible, but the fumes caused (metal fume fever?) and Jim is now 
>> in
>> the hospital in intensive care and gravely ill. I know he would not mind 
>> my publishing the story as a warning to avoid
>> breathing the fumes from burning or welding galvanized metal.
>>
>> Ron Childers
>>
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