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    PSA: Impact of cleaning products on your health

    Saw this posted over on Reddit, and wanted to share it here:

    Impact of Cleaning Products on Women`s Lungs as Damaging as 20-a-Day Cigarette Habit: Study

    To pros and weekend enthusiast (like me), if you don`t already use a mask while working around harsher cleaners like an APC or a Wheel Cleaner you may want to start.
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    Re: PSA: Impact of cleaning products on your health

    Back in the day, I quit using 3M PI-II RC over the silica-based abrasives and the need for a mask with `em. And products like Wheel Brightener just aren`t part of my arsenal, primarily because of the potential health impacts. I don`t mind using nasty stuff when it`s needed to get the job done, but I`d still rather avoid it.

    Regarding the linked study, I found it a bit tough to evaluate given the paucity of data, and I also wonder how our Detailing stuff compares to the "disinfecting products" they were studying. Anyhow, looks like guys are off the hook ("No association between lung function and cleaning was seen for males.."), though that M/F diff makes my inner skeptic wonder

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    Re: PSA: Impact of cleaning products on your health

    I a̶l̶w̶a̶y̶s̶ usually use protection.
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    Re: PSA: Impact of cleaning products on your health

    Quote Originally Posted by Angus View Post
    Saw this posted over on Reddit, and wanted to share it here:

    Impact of Cleaning Products on Women`s Lungs as Damaging as 20-a-Day Cigarette Habit: Study

    To pros and weekend enthusiast (like me), if you don`t already use a mask while working around harsher cleaners like an APC or a Wheel Cleaner you may want to start.
    Mebbe a little late for me..............

    But gives me something else to blame, like blowing out my brakes weekly in college while I was working at gas station.
    Formerly the "Best Detailer", now just Super Wax Waster Man. Not necessarily tactful, but normally right. It`s good to be da King !!!
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    Re: PSA: Impact of cleaning products on your health

    Quote Originally Posted by Ronkh View Post
    Mebbe a little late for me..............
    Or mebbe not thinks the optimist in me.

    blowing out my brakes ...
    Sigh, the stuff we did before we knew better. And...bigger sigh..the stuff we did even afterwards.
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    Re: PSA: Impact of cleaning products on your health

    As a kid I worked at a tunnel car wash for a few years. Carbon Tetrachloride was used in squirt bottles to remove tar. Refilled your bottle by dunking it into a big, open trough of Carbon Tet. Oops...

    Carbon tetrachloride is one of the most potent`hepatotoxins`(toxic to the liver), so much so that it is widely used in scientific research to evaluate hepatoprotective agents.Exposure to high concentrations of carbon tetrachloride (including`vapor) can affect the`central nervous system, degenerate the liver and kidneys, and prolonged exposure may lead to`coma`or`death.Chronic exposure to carbon tetrachloride can cause`liver and`kidney damage`and could result in`cancer.`See`safety data sheets.
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    Re: PSA: Impact of cleaning products on your health

    Quote Originally Posted by BudgetPlan1 View Post
    As a kid I worked at a tunnel car wash for a few years. Carbon Tetrachloride was used in squirt bottles to remove tar. Refilled your bottle by dunking it into a big, open trough of Carbon Tet. Oops...
    yep, that too

    But we got the stuff clean!
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    Re: PSA: Impact of cleaning products on your health

    Quote Originally Posted by Ronkh View Post
    yep, that too

    But we got the stuff clean!
    Bonus was wet concrete + carbontet = *really* slippery toxic tumbles.

    Care to expand on the weekly blown brakes issue?

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    Re: PSA: Impact of cleaning products on your health

    Quote Originally Posted by BudgetPlan1 View Post
    Bonus was wet concrete + carbontet = *really* slippery toxic tumbles.

    Care to expand on the weekly blown brakes issue?
    Drum brakes collected dust inside. Remove wheels/drum, blow out big time. Like a brake job for stopping power.

    Great for being a smart butt college kid with fast car, and no brains.
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    Re: PSA: Impact of cleaning products on your health

    Waiting for all the years of cleaning my hands with lacquer thinner to catch up ... or breathing paint in the air before that was banned too
    life is short ..do it while you can

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    Re: PSA: Impact of cleaning products on your health

    Quote Originally Posted by Ronkh View Post
    Drum brakes collected dust inside. Remove wheels/drum, blow out big time. Like a brake job for stopping power.

    Great for being a smart butt college kid with fast car, and no brains.
    pluse the noise it made with the dust in the drums.

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    Re: PSA: Impact of cleaning products on your health

    Or using asbestos trivets as Frisbees in chemistry class
    or no gloves in biology and reaching into formaldehyde.....
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    Re: PSA: Impact of cleaning products on your health

    Quote Originally Posted by BudgetPlan1 View Post
    Care to expand on the weekly blown brakes issue?
    Brake pad material used to be asbestos/etc.-based back then.
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    Re: PSA: Impact of cleaning products on your health

    Quote Originally Posted by Poorboy View Post
    Waiting for..breathing paint in the air before that was banned too
    Yeah, Zinc Chromate primer

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    Re: PSA: Impact of cleaning products on your health

    Ahhh the good old days - right fellas?
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