Please rank the relative danger of these.
A. Resin/fiberglass dust entering skin.
B. Resin/fiberglass dust entering lungs.
C. Uncatalyzed resin entering skin.
D. Resin/mkep fumes entering lungs.
E. Foam dust entering skin.
F. Foam dust entering lungs.
Hmm… is this a test?
B
F
D
A
C
E
D - anything involving MEKP
B
C
F
A
E
What do I win?
No danger, because of proper mentoring and training we wear something called personal protection devices, It’s the law.
Any danger, real or imagined is only due to the users ignorance or laziness.
Maybe that’s how you get our build times down with protection shortcuts.
you left out being speared in the face by a kook on a surftech
put that at no 1.
you left out being speared in the face by a kook on a surftechput that at no 1.
Coming from a guy who glasses in his living room???
no i dont
i glass in a spare room off the house
i use a dust extractor and shop vac
besides i live in a 120 year old house with overgrown yard and borer holes in the floorboards
no insulation etcetc
i can imagine what you lawn looks like
plastic like your wallhangings,surfboards and barbie doll wife/girlfriend
im sure she matches the softop suv
and doesnt mind waiting on the beach at tavarua
obproud,
Kendall has it right. Though I think B and C are equally bad, for different reasons. Probably the worst is dirty Acetone. It takes everything disolved in it right into your bloodstream, through your skin. Works much the same as DMSO, also a solvent.
yeah and not neccesary either bill
huie told me to use laundry powder to clean brushes
works a treat
True. We used to use TIDE laundry powder. Stinky odor, but would really get the resin off your hands. You could feel a strong exotherm when the water hit the powder.
haven’t read the others answers coz I thought that was cheating. I’d say:
B
D
F
C
A
E
I’ll have a look at the othes answers now.
some interesting anwers,
I tend not to take chances and use the appropriate safety equipment.
my take was that dust on the skin can be irritaing but not really dangerous.
Resin on the skin is not too dangerous as long as you don’t use solvents to remove it which can act as a vehicle for nasties to get into your blood stream.
Thing is its easy to know when you’ve got stuff on your skin, but if your not wearing a well fitting face mask then you don’t always realise how much dust/fumes you’ve been breathing in.
Also I’d rate fibreglass dust higher that resin fumes again coz the smell you know they are there.
I’m not sure of the intensity of the chemicals in the vapours or how long they stay in your body or take to build up but I would assume glass dust would stick around longer as the particles are bigger, but I no chemist. Stay away from both.
You know that if you get MKPT in a cut its bad for you coz it stngs like F*@% but just coz you not in instant pain doesn’t mean something like dust is not going to build up and hurt you in the long run.
Assuming you’re talking about PU/PE construction, that’s like saying, which is more lethal… a shotgun or a handgun… If you’re dead, you’re dead.
But here’s my guess:
C
B
C
A
F
E