There are warnings all over alt fuel sites about dealing with methanol because of course it is nasty poisonous stuff. I have not been experimenting with the process cuss the info on 'journey' and elsewhere scared me.
However I just started re-talking to an old friend who has been driving methanol race cars for 34 years. He is a non drooling family man with 5 children and a multitude of grandchildren with a vitality many 30 year olds lack. Apart from messing with methanol 6 months of the year he does a lot of head slamming, violent body 'G' forced exercises, explosions, engulfing fires and heavy disagreements between crew and promoters - between rounds, routinely. I get the impression that he and his crew sort of slop methanol around from the barrel to the container to the race car - he assures me they do not wear special clothing or breathing apparatus, he doesn't remember if they wear gloves but supposes they do if they have them on at the time. I remember buying an USA made hammer in the 70*s it was hung with labels and stuff saying to wear protective glasses, gloves, overalls etc and to keep children and pets away, not to leave it unattended and to hide it or lock it up from potential thieves - failure to do any of that stuff would void it's warranty - it was a hammer for goodness sakes - are you Americans nuts? Anyway, I would really like to know if anyone has died by handling - not drinking because that is deathly - methanol, and if so if the poison intrudes through the skin or the airways. Hmm... I Guess this is a bit beyond our competence maybe but even my doctor agrees, stay curiouse - try and work it out. Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
