Originally Posted by
habilis
Hope you are doing safer stuff these days. I used carb cleaner in an unventilated space and got pretty nauseous. We can only hope that neither of us was permanently affected. A friend of mine was repairing vinyl car upholstery on a hot day. He went into convulsions and died.
That was 37 years ago and I am doing safer stuff now. I work in a hospital emergency department analyzing data. The most dangerous part of my job is bumping my head on the underside of my desk when I plug and unplug my equipment. Wow, dying while repairing vinyl care upholstery. Those hydrocarbon fumes are deadly. I part out any work that involves handling dangerous substances. I recently got my Falcon frame sand blasted and powder coated. I bought a can of "safe" paint stripper and after reading the instructions, I thought, "That is too much work and it will smell like solvents." I found a local powder coating shop. Nine day turnaround. I would still be dealing with paint stripper, toothbrushes and pointy things getting the paint off.
