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| S. Heslop:
At the boot sale today was a full SCBA rig, minus the cylinder. I was oh so tempted to offer a price but was frightened I'd get a bargain. I find it weird that i've reached a point where i'm hesitating to buy more junk, since i'm running out of space. I've got boxes of rust from boot sales that I keep thinking i'll clean up some day. Maybe I should start throwing out the old junk so I can buy new junk. |
| vtsteam:
Welding respirators for metal fumes: http://www.capitolscientific.com/lab-safety-products/3m-welding-fume-particulate-respirator I believe milk has been used because the calcium may displace the zinc in the body -- calcium has been used in that way in the past for other metal inhalation problems. Not sure where I recall that from. |
| lordedmond:
At the iron works many years ago you got two liquid issues from the firm The less common was milk , for when you had been wearing a air fed gas mask on the charging platform of the blast furnace , not sure of the reason The other was 8 pints of beer per shift , reason it was to replace the fluid you lost in the heat from the molten iron , it was fetched from the works pub by the bucketful . The firm had it's own pubs one for each works and they were open for a stores issue of beer 24/7 The other funny one was salt tablets It was also common for the welders to claim a stores issue of milk , that was for any welding work note this was before H&S or the EU stuck their oar in Stuart |
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