On 11-10-2014 4:34, Bald Eagle wrote:
> clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
>
>>>> Yes, it was just a tad less boring than watching paint dry.
>>>
>>> Depends what you are smoking. ;-)
>>
>> ... or what solvent the drying paint is based on ;-)
>
> I had the pleasure (?) of discovering a can of the really good methylene
> chloride / dichloromethane paint stripper for a job I was doing.  It was fun to
> watch that stuff sink right into the several layers of paint - some of which
> surely must have been old lead carbonate / linseed oil - and watching it swell
> and crinkle up like a prune.  You just about wipe it off after that with a paper
> towel.
>
> A different job - we had to use "BIN" to prime some places that had the sap from
> pine knots bleeding through, old cigarette tar or kitchen grease, or mold - and
> the primary cosolvent used in that is ethanol.  Painting with that inside for
> several hours is ... interesting.
>

I had some exposure to trichloroethylene while repairing an old car (2CV 
to be precise)...

Thomas

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