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Title: I asked my GF for help....... Post by Simpsonj06 on 08/16/15 at 21:10:30 So I am in the process of removing the old paint from my 2000 Savage. Went to Lowe's got some stripper and removed the tank and the fairings. Today I was getting ready to tape over the openings of the tank when i got a call from work. I asked my GF to take over for a second. Maybe I should have clariifed, but I meant take over taping. She decided to don my mask, gloves, goggles and go to work spraying the stripper.....no tape covering the gas opening. Sigh........am I SOL and In need of a new tank? Pretty sure if stripper got inside it won't be pretty trying to start it. |
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Title: Re: I asked my GF for help....... Post by scubachef on 08/16/15 at 21:33:36 I don't think you need a new tank. Clean it out well and go. What kind of stripper did you get? I'm thinking clean it out with the gas you drained. In with the gas, agitate and repeat. I would imaging she didn't pour the stripper in the hole. Do you need to clean it up, yeah Probably. Do you need a new tank, nope. Do you have a cool chick that will get her hands dirty...yep. That's a win. |
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Title: Re: I asked my GF for help....... Post by Dave on 08/17/15 at 06:13:11 It is not a big deal. Most of the strippers are water soluble....but water rusts the tank. I would use alcohol, E85 ethanol or acetone and rinse the tank out. |
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Title: Re: I asked my GF for help....... Post by Simpsonj06 on 08/17/15 at 13:11:01 Thank you all very much for the advice. |
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Title: Re: I asked my GF for help....... Post by justin_o_guy2 on 08/17/15 at 21:00:22 And whatever else you do, Do NOT let that girl get away.. I can't imagine a girlfriend who has enough guts to jump into something like that. |
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Title: Re: I asked my GF for help....... Post by Sonny on 08/18/15 at 08:51:13 BTW, be careful handling acetone and all the volatile solvents like xylene, toluene etc. Wear nitrile gloves, don't breathe fumes. I have used acetone for many years as a fuel additive, multi purpose cleaner, you name it. Great, useful stuff. I was always careless about getting it on my hands and clothing. What's to worry, it evaporates so fast and completely? Then 5 years ago I contracted lymphoma, a killer blood cancer. After hellish treatments the docs beat it back and I live on. But I learned that the only clear statistical correlation as far as a cause is occupational exposure to volatile solvents and certain pesticides. They apparently have their wonderful solvent effect on DNA strands as well, and human skin and lung tissue are a transparent barrier to the light, hot molecule -- it goes right thru the skin and lung tissue into the bloodstream. So, use it, but don't get any on ya and don't breathe it. 'Cause lymphoma sucks, and scares the bejesus out of you even if it doesn't kill you, and is blindingly expensive and unpleasant to treat. Just a heads up to whom it may concern. |
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Title: Re: I asked my GF for help....... Post by justin_o_guy2 on 08/18/15 at 09:16:17 A painter's mask, with replaceable cartridges, available at Lowe's, about thirty bucks. They have activated charcoal in them. I used 1-1-1 trichloroethane cleaning copiers, wet rag in my palm. After a coupla days, I went home, collapsed into a near coma. Woke up only when hunger pangs were too much to sleep though and nature calls. I grabbed bread, and a glass of milk and fell back asleep. Woke up four days later. Be careful what you allow yourself to be touched by. Just because someone says it's safe, it might not be safe FOR YOU. Peanut butter is food, right? Death to some. |
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Title: Re: I asked my GF for help....... Post by Sonny on 08/18/15 at 11:40:13 In fairness to acetone, because of part time home repair and landscape maintenance work I did for a lot of years, I had exposure to a wide range of solvents and pesticides. Like with a lot of cancers, the MDs couldn't point a direct finger at any one cause. But I was plenty careless with acetone until I suddenly had to rethink my drink about this kind of thing. I had a step brother who was an Army tech sergeant in Vietnam, loading Agent Orange. He died 15 years ago from the same kind of lymphoma that hit me. My only point being, there are a lot of unknown effects of chemicals we use that can take a long time for the fuse to burn down and finally undo us. So caution is advised. |
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Title: Re: I asked my GF for help....... Post by Simpsonj06 on 08/18/15 at 16:21:37 Sage advice, and much appreciated. Got myself thick gloves, eye protection, and a navy issue gas mask. Got everything off and sanded taking it to get painted tomorrow. Now on to the fun part of trying to clean and shine the engine. Any advice on that would be great too. |
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Title: Re: I asked my GF for help....... Post by Dave on 08/18/15 at 18:07:15 I clean my engine with Bike Bright. Spray it on, use a small paint brush or scrub brush to get where you can't reach easily. Then rinse it off and then wash it again with a good car wash soap. |
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Title: Re: I asked my GF for help....... Post by Simpsonj06 on 08/18/15 at 18:13:28 Thanks dave! |
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Title: Re: I asked my GF for help....... Post by Dave on 08/20/15 at 03:46:32 While we were talking about solvents "not" to use, I recalled that when I was a kid my dad knew a fellow in Warren, Ohio that restored Indian Motorcycles (Gambaccini). They used Carbon Tetrachloride in their parts washer, and over time the solvent caused him to have liver problems. |
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Title: Re: I asked my GF for help....... Post by justin_o_guy2 on 08/20/15 at 07:50:43 Trichloroethane is really good, but, can cause you to fall into a coma. Ask me how I know.. |
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Title: Re: I asked my GF for help....... Post by Dave on 08/20/15 at 07:55:21 The really scary thing I learned was about the Disc Brake Clean....and why some of them now say "Chlorine Free". If you spray the old Disc Brake Clean on a hot surface, the rising fumes can be altered into "Chlorine Gas" and it can kill you! |
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Title: Re: I asked my GF for help....... Post by verslagen1 on 08/20/15 at 08:32:59 even scarier... Quote:
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Title: Re: I asked my GF for help....... Post by justin_o_guy2 on 08/20/15 at 08:42:25 When I was about fourteen I decided I was gonna clean the shower. It was tile and well past time for a scrubbing. Knowing the power of bleach and the scrubbing power of Ajax, it sounded like a sure fire way to knock it out quick. I did it, used them together,, and somehow,I got away with it. I was alone in the house, so, IF I had been overcome by the fumes, no one was there to rescue me. Even IF my step mom had been there, if she saw me in the floor, she woulda just shut the door. I read stories of housewives who died from that years after I did it. I think the one that really sticks in my mind was a woman using gasoline , in the kitchen, trying to get a grease stain outta hubby clothes when someone rang the doorbell. The fumes had gotten up around it and when the bell rang, she was done worrying about the grease spot. If you have a gas water heater, pay attention,too. Gas clothes dryer, I'm very good about caution where fire is concerned. We have extinguishers, and not little ones, coupla five pounders in the house, ten pounders in the shop. |
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