[TheForge] electrolysis

[Ron Childers]

Nah, I just tried it on a few washers as they were what I had to work
with and the washer store is 20 miles in the wrong direction. The EPA
guys do something with it along with used oil, coolant, acid, etc. Zinc
oxide = sunscreen, zinc chromate for paint and zinc tablets as a dietary
supplement. They used to give the old battery acid to radiator shops to
clean the brass tanks on the old copper radiators
 

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[mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of woolley
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 9:24 AM
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Subject: Re: [TheForge] electrolysis

On 5/20/2011 8:43 AM, Paul Sperbeck wrote:
> What you are doing is shifting the environmental impact from the
> atmosphere to the ground water...
> I am the last one to be considered an environmental nut case, but the
> effects of galvanizing poisoning  are no less real even though you do
> them 'outdoors' and have no impact on yourself.



Let me amend that. Burning it off outdoors is relatively safe if you 
wear a decent respirator, keep your head out of the smoke, resist doing 
it as  a demonstration for, let's say, a group of 2nd graders, or making

sure you are not doing enough of it to send a cloud of death through 
your neighborhood.

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