Wow! Way out there... come back down here.
If anything, (coming from any kind of motor vehicle administration
of a US state), they are most likely refering to the fumes
given off by these materials in a vehicular fire.
Paul Tegler wizardz@toad.net http://www.teglerizer.com (new
format)
OBie - '73 BGT - daily driver
Punkin' - '78 Spitfire - corner ripping screamer
Lil' Greenee - '73 RWA Midget - lady killer
-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Schwartz <bschwart@pacbell.net>
To: Graham Stretch <technical@iwnet.screaming.net>
Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Date: Friday, April 28, 2000 9:31 AM
Subject: Re: sidelamp rubber
>
>Graham,
>Sounds like bunkum to me, as I have handled MANY a rubber part from all
>kinds of vehicles over some twenty seven years of tinkering. I have cut,
>shaped, ground, melted, etc. many of them and, while my mind is going, I
>still have all my fingers. I may not always know what to do with them, but
>they're still there - If there was even a shred of truth to this, I would
>have lost them a long time ago -
>Maybe it migrates into the brain, that would explain my condition :-)
>*****************************************
> < snip >
>>A word of warning, I do not know all the details on this or how accurately
I
>>have remembered it.
>>I have been told that most rubber / plastic bits on cars produce some kind
>>of really nasty acid, (Hydrofluoric Acid?), which once in contact with the
>>skin can be neither neutralised nor washed off. It will continue to eat
into
>>the tissue and bone, and the only cure is amputation.
>>Sounds really scary to me, perhaps someone out there on this wonderful
>>resource can either clarify or quash this as bunkum!
>>I seem to recall it was taught as part of a MVT course I was on.
>
>
>Barry Schwartz (San Diego) bschwart@pacbell.net
>
>72 PI, V6 Spitfire (daily driver)
>70 GT6+ (when I don't drive the Spit)
>70 Spitfire (long term project)
>
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