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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: johnsironsanctuary on January 06, 2012, 05:14:41 PM

Title: IMPORTANT!! Read this if you use Brake Cleaner
Post by: johnsironsanctuary on January 06, 2012, 05:14:41 PM

Don't use brake cleaner to clean something before you weld or heat it. If you heat brake cleaner and add argon, you generate phosgene gas, a major deadly toxin as well as a Weapon of Mass Destruction used during WWI.

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Title: Re: IMPORTANT!! Read this if you use Brake Cleaner
Post by: rusty on January 06, 2012, 05:23:39 PM

This has been mentioned in the welding mags for a while, but it doesn't hurt to mention it again.

The irony is, chlorinated cleaners were introduced for safety reasons, because the other stuff is flammable....

(Burning certain plastics will also cause HCl poisining btw..)

Title: Re: IMPORTANT!! Read this if you use Brake Cleaner
Post by: bonneyman on January 07, 2012, 12:20:15 PM

And freon, too. Halogenated hydrocarbons and an open flame produce nasty by-products.

Title: Re: IMPORTANT!! Read this if you use Brake Cleaner
Post by: Ken W. on January 07, 2012, 07:33:02 PM

Brake parts cleaner is one of my favorite chemicals to use.It will melt the wings off yellow jackets and they are dead quick.I clean firearms with this.It works well.I have read this before but lost it.I'll bookmark this and post it in my garage.

Title: Re: IMPORTANT!! Read this if you use Brake Cleaner
Post by: rusty on January 07, 2012, 08:32:15 PM

hehehe.....

I was working on aold a car once, and discovered the fender had a nest of hornets living in it.
So, I sprayed them with the closest thing at hand, which turned out to be starting fluid. They all went Thud and landed on the ground in a pile, dead...I thought.
But starting fluid doesn't kill them, it just puts them to sleep.

They all woke up a few minutes later....


And they were REALLY REALLY MAD!