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Rob

12-13-2005 04:53:32




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Don"t blow up yourself and burn down your shop.
Fuel and solvent vapors are generally heavier than air, tend to lay on the floor, and if you are smelling your stuff it"s really thick next to the floor. More volatile solvents like brake-cleaner and lacquer thinner might float a lot better.
Be real careful with those vapors and your heating equipment. Open flames near the floor are dangerous. Wood stoves and water or space heaters can ignite those fuel and solvent vapors to devastating effect. A better design is a unit heater hanging off the rafters up near the roof and the water heater mounted way above the fixtures.
Use low-vapor solvents to clean up parts. Do the big jobs outside. I"m thinking that gasoline, kerosene, diesel fuel, lacquer thinner, and brake-cleaner are not low-vapor solvents. Denatured mineral spirits (paint thinner at $3/gal) has the odor removed (is not so volatile), works good as a solvent, is priced right compared to other solvents, and is readily available and not a bad choice around the shop. But with any solvent you need to be mindful of those ignition sources and solvent vapors.
Guy in the next county wasn"t thinking about that stuff and just the other day blew up and burned himself, his shop, his tools, and some equipment.

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dan hill

12-14-2005 04:48:56




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 Re: Cold weather shop safety in reply to Rob, 12-13-2005 04:53:32  
Oil furnaces can take in gasoline fumes.Gas tank work should be done out doors.One garage burned when a drop light ignited spilled gasoline.Another garage exploded when the oil furnace sucked in spilled gas fumes.



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tim in pa

12-13-2005 08:16:50




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 Re: Cold weather shop safety in reply to Rob, 12-13-2005 04:53:32  
... good timely suggestions, rob. i'll bet a farmer in pa wish he read your advice yesterday. he caught his farm tractor on fire and some of his pole building trying to start the tractor for snow plowing. looked like an international on the news. poor fella. no injuries tho.



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