Cutting Oil Fumes

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Posted by Clive Steer on 16/06/2023 13:23:45:

… could something like cooking oil be used and would it have a better smell. Castor oil was the best for bike racing back in the barely remembered past …

CS

I wouldn't mess with home-made alternatives because they usually have disadvantages. For example:

• Milk is a first class cutting fluid. Just the job because its an emulsion of fat in water. The booby trap is is it soon goes off creating an appalling stench. Also, don't get decomposing milk in a cut – amputations and fatalities before antibiotics.
• Castor Oil is a powerful laxative. Early aviators were seriously inconvenienced by breathing the fumes!
• Aromatic oils are more likely to cause cancer.

Ventilation is the best answer. The worst thing to do is breath fumes through a lit cigarette.

Dave

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Posted by SillyOldDuffer on 17/06/2023 19:04:03:

 

Ventilation is the best answer. The worst thing to do is breath fumes through a lit cigarette.

Dave

 

I used to smoke heavily when working with asbestos, (the monkey dung variety), I guess the asbestos would not have become more dangerous after passing through the red glow of the fag end – LOL

Edited By Justin Thyme on 17/06/2023 20:08:00

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Posted by Justin Thyme on 17/06/2023 20:07:25:

Posted by SillyOldDuffer on 17/06/2023 19:04:03:

Ventilation is the best answer. The worst thing to do is breath fumes through a lit cigarette.

Dave

I used to smoke heavily when working with asbestos, (the monkey dung variety), I guess the asbestos would not have become more dangerous after passing through the red glow of the fag end – LOL

Edited By Justin Thyme on 17/06/2023 20:08:00

Probably true, but is smoking makes you more likely to suffer the effects of asbestos exposure

https://www.asbestos.com/asbestos/smoking/#:~:text=Smoking%20damages%20cilia%2C%20making%20it,scar%20tissue%20in%20your%20lungs

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