Dear Gene,
You honored me with this question:
Carl dude!! how goes it??
listen. there's a lotta fog over what solvent does what to whose liver and muck
i had a paint company brochure on it that was informative beyond my usual phdeeper approach. but i
lost it in moving.
somewhere on the net is the info.
maybe use your skills and post it?
g.daniels
Basically, don't breathe fumes. Remember, a Huffy is a bicycle, not a lifestyle.
More seriously, an open garage or outdoor setting is likely to handle most solvent problems that the
casual bicyclist faces.
The less that you touch solvents, the better.
Searching for something like this isn't to hard--just google for
wd40 health hazard solvent
and you'll end up with a few pages to browse like this one:
Ruv5YO5kJ:www.technologysupplies.co.uk/Lubricants/WD40.pdf+solvent+health+wd40+hazards&hl=en&ie=UTF-
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If you're concerned, take a deep breath, exhale while spraying or pouring, take a step or two away,
turn your head, inhale, and go back to spraying and pouring.
Or just switch to citrus-based degreasers. They don't work as quickly, but they offer a pleasing
smell and a sense of security.
Indeed, Caribbean limes are not much good for anything but cleaning oily garage floors.
The original small-scale anti-scurvy experiments worked only because Mediterranean limes with lots
of vitamin C were used.
Impressed, the Royal Navy ordered limes in bulk from the Caribbean. Unfortunately, these cheap limes
contained about as much vitamin C as newsprint because they grew in bad soil.
The Royal Navy soon concluded that limes didn't cure scurvy and switched to other anti-scurvy diets
for years.
Huffing lime fumes is probably safe.
I look forward to interesting and inflamed follow-ups.
Carl Fogel