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Re: sidelamp rubber

To: Graham Stretch <technical@iwnet.screaming.net>
Subject: Re: sidelamp rubber
From: Barry Schwartz <bschwart@pacbell.net>
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 06:30:45 -0700
Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net
References: <20000421193228.4782.qmail@hotmail.com>
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 :-)
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>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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