[Amps] Cleaning Stuff

[Bill Gode, Sr.]

I respectfully suggest those who are interested in solvents read 
about them on Wikipedia.

The link for Trichlor was already posted. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichloroethylene

Here is the link for MEK:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butanone

73,

Bill, W9NHQ



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rich" <rdjmgmt at socket.net>
To: "Amps" <amps at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 10:35 AM
Subject: [Amps] Cleaning Stuff


> After reading the many posts about cleaning solvents may I say 
> please be
> careful no mater what you use. The company I worked for used the
> tri-clor in large vapor degreasers, we cleaned the aircraft 
> skins for
> testing in a mixture of toluene, MEK and acetone. Working on our 
> hand
> and knees breathing in the fumes. Cleaning rubber pads with the 
> same
> then bonding them on the aircraft with an adhesive that has 
> solvent
> bearing fumes. Used Mozel to clean solder joints, did silver 
> solder with
> cadmium in it. We had no easy to get information like today's 
> MSD
> Sheets. Many people like, my self, got cancer. I did it but 
> would never
> let my children or grandchildren use the same things.
>
> Rich , kd0zz