how not to remove rust

[Nathan Nichols]

Doh, I really shouldn't reply to things when I'm sleepy Sorry, you were asking about how close you were to hurting yourself, not why it happened. I don't know the answer, but I imagine if it actually hurt to breathe it in you got out when you should have. I use the stuff for the pool and don't enjoy messing with the stuff. On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Robert Waters wrote:

> > I found an old adjustable wrench that had been out in the weather, but > worth cleaning up. I had bought some muriatic acid to clean concrete with. I > got the idea that it might clean the rust off the wrench. All I could find > to use for the container was an old aluminum paint sprayer bottom. It has a > lot of pant in it so it took it a while to develop a problem. > > I stuck the wrench down in it and was amazed at how well it took off the > rust. However, I turned my attention to something else for a moment, then > turn around and a huge amount of very dangerous smoke was coming from the > can. It was HOT, but I got it out of the garage, without breathing enough to > kill me. It did cause a lot of things in the garage to rust, so I probably > caused a lot more rust by using it than I got rid of. > > Any of you chemist want to tell me how close I was to killing myself? I > breathed a little and it hurt. Luckly I did not have a dog around--it would > surely have killed it. > > rw > > > > TotalHealth.bz > Focus On Truth > > --------------------------------- > Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it > now. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > >

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