Rear deck lid louvre air

Not to mention that a lot of the Amalgam made up by dentists for use as fillings had/has Mercury as a big component: "Dental amalgam is a mixture of metals, consisting of liquid (elemental) mercury and a powdered alloy composed of silver, tin, and copper. Approximately half (50%) of dental amalgam is elemental mercury by weight."

Mercury is considered to be a "Heavy Metal".  "There are 35 metals that are of concern for us because of residential or occupational exposure, out of which 23 are heavy metals: antimony, arsenic, bismuth, cadmium, cerium, chromium, cobalt, copper, gallium, gold, iron, lead, manganese, mercury, nickel, platinum, silver, tellurium, thallium, tin, uranium, vanadium, ..."

So we all carried on our lives, slowly getting Mercury into our systems.....  Yes, I know that the FDA says the amount of Mercury in those fillings is trivial to our health, but how do we know for sure?  They once thought Asbestos was safe, too.

My current dentist uses a mix of powdered ceramic and "non-toxic adhesive/binder" of some sort.  I wonder what I'm gonna catch from that?

carbon tet, came in army green spray cans and grease cans....used in electronics for cleaning components,,,we used it to clean everything in Nam,,,electrical, grease on equipment,clean ur hands, insect spray,crotch rot, toilets ...this stuff works wonders...

then there is agent orange..didnt know it was around..lost 2 of my best buddies both from LA "Big Mac" and "Beaner" within 5 years of getting home in early 72..massive organ failure...such a shame

The first sound company I worked for kept me employed full time by running their speaker reconing dept. I used MEK to dissolve the old glue on the surrounds. No mask, no gloves, no eye protection. Along with all the various and sundry gasoline, kerosene, brake cleaner parts washing over the years.

No known issues, yet, except I have to be really careful with brake cleaner and parts washer fluid now. If I get it on my hands, I suffer from about 24 hours of horrible cramps.

But due to my asthma, I have to be really careful about inhaling particulates. I don’t even go outside when the 2.5 or Ozone numbers are up. (Which has been a bitch this summer. I’ve only driven the Spider twice since May.)

@Gordon Nichols posted:

@aircooled Bruce just reminded me of some solvent I used to clean ink platens on old, mechanical cash registers when I was in my teens working for National Cash Register for a year.  I can't remember the name of the stuff, but any callouses on your hands just dissolved over time to smooth skin.  Made my high voltage RF burns from my Ham Radio transmitter just melt away.  Only decades later did they ban the stuff for being carcinogenic.  

Trichloroethylene, probably. TCE for short.

Yeah that stuff was bad. Besides ink, it was the other stuff newspapers bought by the barrel. In Central Florida (and I'm sure elsewhere) those barrels eventually got kicked into open pits and buried. Plenty of lawsuits resulted, but surprisingly little news coverage...

Lived in Trenton NJ as a kid - used to go surf fishing in in Seaside with my dad.  We'd drive thru the Jersey Pine Barrens for 30 miles and see tanker trucks pumping that stuff into the sand along the road.  Never did see the Jersey Devil.

At the old VW shop in NJ we had three cleaning solution barrels along the wall the first was Safety Clean, the second was a mild caustic soda and the third, God only knows what was in that one ( we called it Hoffa Juice)  it's  where I set a crankshaft in and forgot about it over a weekend, come Monday AM it was 2/3rds.........gone .

Hoffa juice 😂

I used to suck on the pennies to remove the tarnish, then rub the mercury on !  Used to chew paraffin and tar too !  How bout eat a raw onion like an apple ? Or Ruhbarb right out of the garden,  dip it in salt, then eat.........Bruce

I chewed wax. I remember people chewing tar at the time but I don't think I ever did.  I ate rhubarb without salt.

You guys are both sick puppies……….        Tar?  

Sounds like the “Day’s Work” chewing tobacco my uncle Waldo used to chew.  It came in a cake (he called it a “plug”) about the size of a pack of cigarettes and you just gnawed off however much you wanted.
I tried that stuff once (just once).  

@edsnova I’ve been trying to remember the name of my NCR stuff, but c’mon….That was, like, 50 years ago.  I have trouble remembering things from last year!  

It’ll pro’bly come to me in the middle of the night (and then I’ll forget it again by the time I get up in the morning).  Such is the life of an auld phart.  It was some really rugged solvent!

Many decades ago I worked at a lumber company with a slight man about 5'4" and weighing around 140 lbs. he was 74. "Mose " could do the work of a 23 y/ o ( me) and every Monday by hand, we off loaded 538  - 94 lb. bags of Portland cement. I had all I could to to keep up with him, Mose ate a large sweet onion like an apple every day after lunch, he lived a healthy life until his passing at 96.  He would tell tales of farm work from when he was in his early 20's when he would drive horses that pulled a  manure spreader even when temps were below freezing.  When done, he would un- hitch the horses bringing them back into the barn. However his overalls would accumulate a few inches of frozen manure and that's where the other farm hands came into play as they would beat the frozen manure  off of Mose until he was able to get out of the overalls....Mose said that's where the phrase "They beat the shyt out of me".... originated :~)

I was born in and grew up in Battle Creek, Michigan, home of the breakfast cereal industry.

When in college I worked summers in the Ralston factory.  Because there was a danger of explosions from grain dust, smoking was prohibited.  So, many workers chewed.  Occasionally, some offered me a chew.  It would bother my mother when she would see me with a chew in my mouth after work.

I spent two summers during high school working in the aluminum extrusion and anodizing sections of a plant that made screen doors.

The anodizing tank area wasn't well ventilated and there were gloves, but no masks anywhere.

That may account for the 3'' blue tail I have grown.

@Panhandle Bob posted:

I spent two summers during high school working in the aluminum extrusion and anodizing sections of a plant that made screen doors.

The anodizing tank area wasn't well ventilated and there were gloves, but no masks anywhere.

That may account for the 3'' blue tail I have grown.

Look on the bright side: you’ll always be able to get work with the circus if things really go sideways.  

—or sign on with the Anti-vax movement! They'll help you monetize that tail.