[AT] Sandblasting safety

[John Hall]

Speaking of breathing what you are taking off the machine, I've done a bunch 
of wire brushing  without ever wearing a respirator. With two of us running 
grinders with brushes it would get so hazy in the shop we would open the 
door in the winter just to let some fresh air in.

 Hopefully I won't suffer any health consequences due to the ignorance of 
youth. You think being weekend warriors we don't need to be careful, but 
after waging this same restoration war for many years it doesn't hurt to 
take a few common sense precautions.

John


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charlie hill" <chill8 at cox.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 5:18 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Sandblasting safety


> Bruce,
>
> Your advice is good about the old paint being toxic.  I take back my 
> advice to re-use the media.  I temporarily forgot we were blasting old 
> lead based paints.
>
> I've never actually seen any used and it's very expensive but the easiest 
> blast media to clean up is dry ice.  It just evaporates.
> Yep they do blast with it.
>
> Charlie
>