[Spridgets] Welding safety - Brake Cleaner can kill you

[Kitterer Bob]

On May 8, 2010, at 4:10 PM, Dave G. wrote:

> My Great Uncle Ivor was gassed in the trenches in WW1.. cost him his larynx and windpipe, ate 
> throught a tube, couldn't talk.

When folks talk about servicemen being gas in WWI it is usually Mustard gas not Phosegene.

There are two significant differences:

First mustard gas, in liquid form, will eat through your shoes and the gas does similar things to your body.

Phosegene has a different problem.  I do not recall the biological effect but  your nose can detect it at 2 ppm,  unfortunately it is deadly at 1 ppm so you never want to be able to smell Phosegene.


Bob Kitterer

1960 Austin Healey Sprite (Mk IV in disguise) - in storage
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