Anyone who welds should read this

[SXRguyinMA]

You might think brake cleaner would be fairly innocuous when used as a cleaner before mig welding....read on

Brake Cleaner = Phosgene Article

[Mach]

Holy sheet! Scary stuff indeed. Thanks for the articcle.

[Mark_Hardware]

oh man! That's sad I feel bad for that dude now

[BuzzKillington]

holy ****. I think the title should be anyone who welds or knows anyone that welds. This is some crazy stuff.

Just think this stuff used to be used in past wars.

[Luke122]

OMFG.. I'll be sure to mention this to my dad and his mechanics!

[crenn]

Holy ****!

[Commando]

Wow,

Talk about reading warnings. That's bizarre.

TD

[msmrx57]

I've never used brake cleaner before welding, but I'm sure gonna check contents of whjat I do use.

[Spawn-Inc]

hmm, my brother uses it all the time, and i when i get a can of it, though mine is non-chlorinated.

reminds me of when i drilled a hole in the bottom of a empty can of airbrush propellant and got this purple liquid on my arm and burnt like crazy for a few days and left me with a rash.

[blueonblack]

Thanks for the link, I had no idea about the brake cleaner. (I always use starting fluid, haven't found anything that works as well.)

Certain kinds of refrigerant will do the same thing, like R-12. And they used to use a torch as a leak tester on older systems. If the flame changed color it was hitting refrigerant, so you knew your leak was there. Of course, you were also generating poison gas right in front of your face, but at least you located that pesky freon leak.