On Mon, 2013-11-04 at 21:08 -0500, Dave Cole wrote: > > On 11/4/2013 6:20 PM, Steve Blackmore wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Nov 2013 04:50:45 -0500, you wrote: > > > >> TapMagic for aluminum. Slicker'n snake snot on a barstool. > > Even better > > > > Carbon Tetrachloride :) > > > > Sounds mad as it's so volatile that you would think it would evaporate > > before doing anything but it was superb tapping or cutting fluid - > > banned now as too toxic. > > > > Steve Blackmore > > -- > > Carbon Tet will screw with your nervous system. I had some experience > with the stuff right after the ban. It goes right through your skin. > Rubber gloves were almost useless with it. The solvent would go right > through them. I used 50+ gallons of it where I was working at the time > to clean parts. The material was purchased prior to the ban. So they > decided to use it for cleaning in house since they could not resell it. > It took me a short period of time to figure out that I had to have all > of the shop windows open before using it... otherwise it would really > screw with my head. > > Dave
Not at all nice stuff unless you want to make a mess of yourself. >From Wikipedia: Exposure to high concentrations of carbon tetrachloride (including vapor) can affect the central nervous system, degenerate the liver[10] and kidneys[12] and may result (after prolonged exposure) in coma and even death.[13] Chronic exposure to carbon tetrachloride can cause liver[14][15] and kidney damage and could result in cancer.[1 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > November Webinars for C, C++, Fortran Developers > Accelerate application performance with scalable programming models. Explore > techniques for threading, error checking, porting, and tuning. Get the most > from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60136231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ November Webinars for C, C++, Fortran Developers Accelerate application performance with scalable programming models. Explore techniques for threading, error checking, porting, and tuning. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60136231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
