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If you drink milk before, the milk will line your throat and keep you from getting sick... It's a ghetto solution. Best bet is to grind all the galvanizing off. I've never gotten sick from it, HOWEVER. DO NOT, WELD SOMETHING THAT YOU PREVIOUSLY CLEANED WITH BRAKE CLEANER. Breathe it in and you will feel like you're going to die.Originally Posted by shovelryder
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But when you are breathing the air is going into the lungs.......Dont ya get sick from that part of it?????
Side-hilling son of a gun
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Watch our where the huskies go.....and dont you eat that yellow snow.
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A word of warning to all welders out there...
I've been hospitalized due to zinc poisoning once and been ill from it a couple of other times. Drinking milk in advance of welding zinc only masks the preliminary symptoms, you are still doing tremendous and permanent damage to your body.
The time I ended up in the hospital was awful. They can't do much for you, you feel like your freezing to death, but yet you have a temperature and sweat buckets. I was in bed for 3 days. As of a month ago I was informed that I have some supposedly benign cysts on my liver and my kidneys seem to do things the doctors can't pin point. I also have had to get a cancerous spot burned of my bicep and I get pre-cancerous spots on my biceps every few months that I have to get checked and treat with creams.
There is ZERO doubt that this is caused from welding burns that occurred back some 20 years when I would spot weld in a t-shirt with the sleeves rolled up all day long and fried the skin between my welding gloves and my shoulders. The skin on my cheeks is starting to itch as of late as well, I burnt my face tacking more times than I did my arms, so that's what will be a problem next. Then there were the welders flashes, although I didn't get many as I wear eye glasses and have blue eyes which helps a little. I seem to have escaped permanent damage from that bit of stupidity.
Please don't be stupid, wear a CERTIFIED RESPIRATOR TO WELD ZINC and always be fully clothed when welding or tacking.
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Friend had that happen.. Just one tiny weld to demonstrate for a friend. He grabbed a scrap piece that was laying on the floor in front of the workbench that someone else had dripped brake cleaner on. The fumes filled his hood and instantly took his breath.. later that night he went ER because he was scared of the symptoms. Spent 2 days at hospital being monitored.. Missed a week of work. Eventually he returned to nearly normal, but he was lucky. Research phosgene poisoning.. Scary
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Arm chair racerAt the back of the pack
Mine was the same way.....Was the worst sick Ive ever felt.
yaegerb
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^this comment is over the line for this forum. Louis/Billy...is there a reason this guy is still here?
Competing with a gnat in reading comprehension. Current winner: Gnat.
Arm chair racerAt the back of the pack
Do you prefer tampons or pads? Lmao
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I'll say goodbye to you now before the mods revoke the chance for you to do the same. You've managed to embarrass yourself and piss off others, some who are very respected on here and did nothing to provoke you.
Whenever it is they let you come back, please return with a little less attitude and a lot more respect for those who are trying to help you out in life as well as with your trike.
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I wish somebody could tell my dad that. i smelled him welding galvanized pipe 50 feet away and i went over to ask him what he was doing and he said, and i quote "awhh they tell you that crap but really it ain't no big deal as little as i'm doing here. Its when you weld it for years on end that its a problem"
I left on that note with my hands up. I don't know how much it takes but it cant be safe to breathe in any quantity. He spent 4 hours welding on those pipes and he "seemed fine".
Not me.
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1982 ATC185
1983 ATC185s
1984 ATC200es
1985 ATC200x
When the going gets tough, the tough get sideways
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If it was outdoors, or in a high roof shop he won't get sick the same day. Its not healthy, but not something that will put you in the hospital that same night. Working in tanks is the worst. In my case I was welding hot dipped hangers inside a false stone ceiling that was only about 30" tall with no ventilation but the hole I crawled in through. That was a crappy job.
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Arm chair racerThe day begins with 3WW
Old people are f'n stupid and beligerent and refuse to change and don't care what anyone says . . I should know .
Competing with a gnat in reading comprehension. Current winner: Gnat.
Arm chair racerAt the back of the pack
I'm not coming back. My sources have already confirmed this place is full of morons, however, if you want to see the hack job extended swingarm I'm building tonight it'll be on the PBB. I'm out.
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Make sure you get plenty blazed and have a few dozen cold ones before you start using the power tools
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Arm chair racerJust too addicted
And remember, the best place for the ground lead is on the front left leg of your chair, with the clamp end facing north/northwest.Make sure you get plenty blazed and have a few dozen cold ones before you start using the power tools
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The rides:
1981 ATC110
1982 ATC185
1983 ATC185s
1984 ATC200es
1985 ATC200x
When the going gets tough, the tough get sideways
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