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Jolly Green Chopper wrote:Smells like mine was oxidizing tin and galvanized metal, if they were gray/white in color. I get that same smell when I cut galvanized metal with a torch, or like they said " Deadly Battlefield Russian Rat Poison" ...left over from the WWII Extermination Camps.
Do not cut galvanized metal without a mask, it gives off Zinc oxide fumes when cut, and breathing that crap in can give you what is called metal fume fever, all the symptoms of the flu for about 24 hours. Get enough of it in you and it's hospital time.
I read a story of a guy that got a good dose of it & he was in a real bad way. Spent a lot of time in the hospital, had bad breathing issues, organs shutting down & I think he needed a transplant too. Nasty stuff.
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it". Mark Twain
We will not even cut galvanized steel because of the potential health risks, most of it we get in the form of roofing tin, or old trash cans and it goes right in with the crushed cars. A lot of things will hurt or kill you if you cut them, fumes from various refrigerant gasses can kill, fumes from some types of plastics, pretty much all plastics if you get a good lung full will put you out. It's a long list.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work, because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation!
It's official then, the USSR not only looked like shit, was a shit place to live, but smelled like shit also, the entire place was shit.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
Jolly Green Chopper wrote:Smells like mine was oxidizing tin and galvanized metal, if they were gray/white in color. I get that same smell when I cut galvanized metal with a torch, or like they said " Deadly Battlefield Russian Rat Poison" ...left over from the WWII Extermination Camps.
Do not cut galvanized metal without a mask, it gives off Zinc oxide fumes when cut, and breathing that crap in can give you what is called metal fume fever, all the symptoms of the flu for about 24 hours. Get enough of it in you and it's hospital time.
Allergic reaction or common for the rest of us as well?
"Self-realization. I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "... I drank what?"
Junk Yard Dog wrote:It's official then, the USSR not only looked like shit, was a shit place to live, but smelled like shit also, the entire place was shit.
That's why I like the Finnish rifles, they spent most of their time trying to get the Soviets to take that stuff back...at high velocity.
"Self-realization. I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "... I drank what?"
Jolly Green Chopper wrote:Smells like mine was oxidizing tin and galvanized metal, if they were gray/white in color. I get that same smell when I cut galvanized metal with a torch, or like they said " Deadly Battlefield Russian Rat Poison" ...left over from the WWII Extermination Camps.
Do not cut galvanized metal without a mask, it gives off Zinc oxide fumes when cut, and breathing that crap in can give you what is called metal fume fever, all the symptoms of the flu for about 24 hours. Get enough of it in you and it's hospital time.
Allergic reaction or common for the rest of us as well?
This is a toxic fume,It only effects people who have lungs and breath air bad stuff to play around with, paint coatings on metal can be bad as well, they can give off various toxic fumes.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
