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Safety Warning of the Day

CaptplaidCaptplaid Member Posts: 20,298 ✭✭✭
edited January 2012 in General Discussion
Spraying brake cleaner all over a hydrostatic lawn mower then blowing compressed air to clean it inside an enclosed garage make one feel very...mellow.

Sure you can open the door briefly to air it out, but there is still quite a concentration when you lie on the floor under the tractor.
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    I'll remember this if I run out of beer Superbowl Sunday[:D]
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  • Old-ColtsOld-Colts Member Posts: 22,697 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    That must have been one of the more obscure and difficult to read warning labels on the can!

    If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!

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  • reloader44magreloader44mag Member Posts: 18,783 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    lighting a match would have cleared the area[;)]
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  • HandLoadHandLoad Member Posts: 15,998 ✭
    edited November -1
    I think I remember something about "Subtle Neurological changes..." - But I am not shur
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  • guntech59guntech59 Member Posts: 23,188 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Captplaid
    Spraying brake cleaner all over a hydrostatic lawn mower then blowing compressed air to clean it inside an enclosed garage make one feel very...mellow.

    Sure you can open the door briefly to air it out, but there is still quite a concentration when you lie on the floor under the tractor.





    Your spelling and grammar are good.....considering you killed half your brain cells today.[:0][:D]
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  • CaptplaidCaptplaid Member Posts: 20,298 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The other guy was saying it was hitting him pretty hard. He was under the tractor trying to get a hydraulic line off.

    I didn't think it was too bad but I was working while standing on the other side doing some minor electrical.

    I finally got down there and tried to fight the hard to reach nut. Dang, I had no idea that stuff could concentrate so much under it. I really realized it when I got in the truck and drove home.
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  • hillbillehillbille Member Posts: 14,456 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    capt., wd40 or silicone spray will clean just as good without the fumes.............
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  • CaptplaidCaptplaid Member Posts: 20,298 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'll try to remember that.

    I think using the compressed air also made it worse.
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  • bigoutsidebigoutside Member Posts: 19,443 ✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by guntech59


    quote:Originally posted by Captplaid
    Spraying brake cleaner all over a hydrostatic lawn mower then blowing compressed air to clean it inside an enclosed garage make one feel very...mellow.

    Sure you can open the door briefly to air it out, but there is still quite a concentration when you lie on the floor under the tractor.





    Your spelling and grammar are good.....considering you killed half your brain cells today.[:0][:D]


    Just the weak ones Guntech, just the weak ones.
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  • 1911a1-fan1911a1-fan Member Posts: 51,193 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Captplaid
    Spraying brake cleaner all over a hydrostatic lawn mower then blowing compressed air to clean it inside an enclosed garage make one feel very...mellow.







    is this a safety warning or a recommendation ? [8D], sounds like you didn't mind at all, it gives me a headache just one smell
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  • countryfarmercountryfarmer Member Posts: 4,552
    edited November -1
    I can top that little bit of stupid with my own.
    About 20yrs ago our liquid manure tank was rusted in the bottom. No problem, I cleaned it out good and applied Bondo and fiberglass mesh to it. I had the shop vac blow into the top of it to supply the proper ventilation.
    Needless to say, proper ventilation was NOT happening and for the next couple of months I still felt the effects of the chemicals.
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  • CaptplaidCaptplaid Member Posts: 20,298 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by 1911a1fan
    quote:Originally posted by Captplaid
    Spraying brake cleaner all over a hydrostatic lawn mower then blowing compressed air to clean it inside an enclosed garage make one feel very...mellow.







    is this a safety warning or a recommendation ? [8D], sounds like you didn't mind at all, it gives me a headache just one smell


    It's like what Bobby Knight once said about how he handles stress.

    If rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it.

    What's done is done. Might as well laugh about it. I've used a 6 pack of this stuff before and washed it off but using the compressed air really atomized it.

    Might as well laugh about it now.
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  • BoomerangBoomerang Member Posts: 4,513
    edited November -1
    Depending on the brand brake cleaner you were using, you could have been breathing in carcinogens VOCs into your lungs. I hope not.
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  • montanajoemontanajoe Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 60,205 ******
    edited November -1
    ...makes me crave a pizza,,,[;)][;)]
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  • yoshmysteryoshmyster Member Posts: 22,045 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Let's see since the goodies ain't in a bag so it's not huffing. I reckon since it's free floating in a room so "free basing" of "contact huffing"? Better yet "Free Style Huffing [:D]"

    Next time get one of those misting fans and change the water to brake cleaner [:D].
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