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Old 05-28-2003, 12:32 PM
fitzo fitzo is offline
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Berrylium Hazards

Just wanted to post a thanks to Mike Hull for giving us a "heads up" about the hazards of berrylium dusts, both in the copper-berrylium bronze alloys for guards and such and for the berrylium content in LiquidMetal.

For those who don't get Blade mag, there is a letter to the editor this month that warns about breathing the dust, and the imminent threat of the very nasty Chronic Berrylium Disease.

All who work this intruiging new material LiquidMetal must pay serious heed to handling the dust generated. Not just the immediate respiratory hazard, but the threat from the dust lingering in the shop and being redistributed when we aren't wearing a respirator.

I'm sure this has been spoken of before, especially when Ron Clark was doing the initial workup/testing of this material, but I thought it might bear repeat in light of this mention in Blade.

Younger makers, pay heed. Your breathing is at serious jeapordy if you do not control all dust in your shop. Wear the RIGHT RESPIRATOR for your work. Clean up frequently. Take pains to minimize exposure to the others in your home and your pets. Take my word for it, you don't want to find yourself utterly out of breath from climbing up the stairs from the shop, and you don't want to be wedded to steroids, nebulizers, and oxygen the better part of the day by the time you're 50. I watched my old man die from lung disease, and now I follow in his footsteps. It is not a fun way to spend your later years, and it absolutely sux to find that your "later years" are your 50's.

Sorry to be a downer, here, but those safety considerations we neglect in our "bulletproof" youth bite us in the ass bigtime later on.
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Old 05-28-2003, 01:33 PM
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Very solid advice Mike. This is one of the reasons I am so anal about dust control in my shop, with two dedicated 1 H.P. dust collectors for the grinders and another 2 h.p. dust collector for general use. I also have 3 poor mans air cleaners in my partitioned off grinding section. As soon as I can afford it, I'll put a high CFM air cleaner in the shop to run all of the time. Some may find this overkill, but I do value my health a great deal, and I also enjoy working in a clean shop. These measures don't keep all of the dust down, but what they don't get I get with the shop vac at least once a week.



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Old 05-29-2003, 05:05 PM
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Some may find this overkill
not in the least, darren. when you compare the cost of installing and running all of the air cleaning equipment you can fit into the shop, plus the best respirator equipment you can find against the cost of a lung transplant, all of a sudden it's cheap insurance 8o
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thanx for the reminder, mike. i read the letter in blade this morning. even though LTI puts stickers on their blade stock and sends a warning sheet along, it doesn't hurt to be reminded that most of the stuff we work with can hurt us. i have a really good forgetter!


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