It may be a gas , But are you putting yourself at risk ?

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my Grandfather ran his own shop for over 30 years, and I saw all of these things mentioned- paint,asbestos laced brake dust,using gas to clean hands/parts, different chemicals handled without gloves... it was the 2 packs of cigarettes a day and his diet that got him, and not of cancer, but 2 massive coronaries...

back then we really didn't have the gloves and the high tech filtration that we take for granted nowadays... just like using lead in gas, paint and for bodyfiller... what was available was used...

I was actually looking to see if anyone mentioned one thing most of us nowadays are guilty of and most don't really know: used motor oil is a known cancer causing carcinogen... CA even lists it as a hazardous material.... yes, I do use gloves now to change my oil and most general work now, and keep a couple bottles of dawn in the kitchen...
 
I don't know how anybody can clean their heads with carb or brake cleaner, that stuff burns.
 
Jake-

In reference to your last post, that's only one reason I don't wear rings and stopped wearing watches. When I was working in shop class, I met a guy who had his finger taken clean off when an engine lathe grabbed his ring while feeling a knurling on a handle. He had no ring finger on his left hand. I've also heard of necklaces being caught in mills and a drill presses, and ironworkers who have lost fingers and ears due to jewelry. I'm generally not a fan of jewelry anyway, but I've learned machinery and jewelry don't mix, and I like lathes and mills a lot more than I like a little gold on my hand.

Well my wife makes her own jewelry and I have a collection of Dallas Pridgen sterling silver, and my skull ring.
so I've got to remember to remove mine before going to the chem cabinet. But I've been burned enough times
that I remember now to do it.
today I work in a shop 8 hours and all kinds of electric tools. Bandsaws, drills, sanders, ect. and I keep my rings
and necklaces on all the time even my watch. I gotten so used to it they are part of me.
I do build boats, but not working with raw fiberglass. It has all been processed (cured) and is ready
for fabrication to finished product by the time we handle it. So for me it's cutting some holes or sanding the edges
or polishing and buffing. The rest of my job is electrical and custom fabrication.
I can tell you I'm the only person on the planet doing what I do. It's the only mfg making these boats.
 
Hands weren't the only things washed with gas, back in the old days housewives used to clean clothes in open pans of gas. Dry cleaners also used to use gas to laundry clothes. Imagine all the toxins in those clothes washed in gas, yuck. Plus all those women absorbing chemicals from doing laundry, some getting burned when gas was ignited by static. They really did crazy stuff back then.
 
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I don't know how anybody can clean their heads with carb or brake cleaner, that stuff burns.

Brake Cleaner burns? I always just felt like it was cold. Never used gas for cleaner. Parts solvent I used bare handed as a kid, and that was in the 90's.

The one thing I know we were always careful with was Carb cleaner. That 5gal pail was always sealed and we used specific tools to remove the tray from the 5gal container, then straight into a bucket of water. always was very careful to keep that off skin and clothes.

I use the cheap crappyfreight nitrile gloves when I can, they dont last long for me but atleast I try.

As for Cali, everything causes cancer or something in that state.
 
I use brake clean, gas or WD40 to clean my hands if nothing else is available at the time, I guess I have a death wish....hahaha
 
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