[TheForge] Re: TheForge Digest, Vol 16, Issue 19

[Brian Gilbert]

Ron:

This would be a good letter for all of the ABANA membership to see & be
reminded of...do you mind if I print in the Hammer's Blow?

Thanks
BG

-- 
Brian Gilbert
Editor, The Hammer's Blow
P.S. The Hammer's Blow needs your articles! Send in ideas, sketches,
photographs... as long as it's "how-to," then why not share it with the rest
of the ABANA membership? I'll look forward to working with you in just about
any capacity- Thanks!


> 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