Re: Environmentally-better paint strippers DO work

David Nebenzahl wrote:
On 2/9/2009 12:18 PM HeyBub spake thus:

norminn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

the more benign industrial chemicals.
One of the more benign? Only highly flammable, causes cancer, can
cause asphyxiation.......here is an MSDS for paint remover with m.c.
in it.
http://www.cleanersolutions.org/downloads/msds/555/Strypeeze%20MSDS.pdf

Gee whiz, Louise!

If the amount of MC used in industry can be represented by a blade
of grass, Sodium Hydroxide (Lye) and Hydrochloric Acid can be
represented by the football field containing that blade of grass.
There are many industrial chemicals that are more user un-friendly
and used in magnitudes greater quantities.

Except that sodium hydroxide and HCl are neither of them carcinogenic,
just caustic.

Right. But they are considerably, CONSIDERABLY, more toxic than Methelyne
chloride.


Methylene chloride is truly evil stuff, to be avoided at all costs in
my book.

You need a new book. Methylene chloride is only slightly more hazardous than
Cool Whip.


But maybe you think we should go back to those halcyon days when
gasoline contained lead, houses were sheathed and insulated with
asbestos, transformers were cooled with PCBs, fields were sprayed with
DDT, electronic components were cleaned with TCE, and you could pay a
nickel to zap your feet with X-rays*. When men were men, until they
got cut down by fatal tumors.


I'd be for some of that.

* Asbestos is superior to almost anything else as a fire retardant and
insulation material. The WTC building that had its steel beams coated with
asbestos stood the fire for almost an hour longer than its twin. There has
never been a case of cancer caused by exposure to commercial asbestos.

* There has never been a human sickness, let alone death, attributed to DDT.
On the contrary, literally millions have died as a result of the absence of
DDT.

* Tetraethyl lead, as well as other commercial uses of lead, are almost
completely benign, the one exception I can think of is bullets. The most
common, provable, environmental problem associated with lead is when
precious snowflakes gnaw on lead-based paints.

I don't know about the other stuff.


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