sanding safety

Hi everyone,

 

apologies if theres information in the archives on this, i did a search and cant find much. 

I’m slightly worried I inhaled a fair bit of sanded hotcoat yesterday (was wearing a respirator but turned off sander, took if mask, breathed in and then noticed loots lof little particles about!).

Feeling ok at the moment and know theres no point going to the docs as I dont have any symptoms and theres nothing i can do! Just wondering if other people know the health effects… on various material datasheets I’ve found on the web it just says no problem, slight upper respiritory tract irritation, vague chance of cancer.  My worry is more that it had only been curing for one week so i’ve got little bits of resin curing inside me!

But i guess proffesional glassers must inhale a tiny bit every so often however carefull they are.

Any thoughts??

 

Happens all the time. If anyone who's made a board says they've never breathed some sort of residual they'd be seriously kidding themselves.

Mind you, there are some long term people who definitely have problems. To watch them sand with a ciggy hanging out of their mouth was pretty sad.

Just be as careful as you can.

Cheers bud,

THats what i figured..

Got to say the toxicity of the stuff has put me off making another till i've sorted out a decent area to do it in

hey dont knock the ciggy tar it filters all the carbon fiber particles