Ah, good old methylene chloride.  We used to regularly have people quit work and go on disability from getting contact dermatitis from the stuff when I worked in a plastics plant.  Despite our warnings, they'd be washing their hands in the stuff.  After a year and a half at this job, I fell ill with a poorly explained disease and thankfully got the flock out of there.  More than once I was rendered slaphappy by various kinds of paint or solvent fumes.  Gives me the shivers now. 

-- Lawrence Lile, P.E.
Electrical and Electronic Solutions
Project Solutions Companies
www.projsolco.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip Stortz [mailto:madscientist.at.large@earthlink.net]
> Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 8:27 PM
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: Re: [EE:] removing varnish from magnet wire
> 
> doubtless correct.  you can always do a google search for the msds, i do
> that often.  Methlyene Chloride will also dissolve epoxy given enough
> time to soak, i had to do this once, truly nasty stuff!  if it hadn't
> been an unusual thing for us to do (recovering the raw glass from corner
> cubes epoxied into aluminum mounting rings, unfortunately the epoxy tore
> the silvering, but the cubes can be recoated for a lot less than new
> corner cubes, i.e. retroreflectors for a laser beam) i would have
> insisted on a fume hood!  definitely have very good ventilation.  then
> again, i now own 2 respirators, and filters are a lot cheaper than
> livers, hell, the whole "north" respirators were cheap.
> 
> Russell McMahon wrote:
> ------
> > Methylene Chloride is very effective as a paint stripper BUT do note
> that it
> > is extremely poisonous and can be absorbed through skin contact. AFAIR
> it is
> > a liver poison.
> --------
> 
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