One last acetone thread and a warning

We just can't say it enough: If you use acetone, do not light a match or smoke while working with it. Acetone is flammable--or inflammable, take your pick. You could burn yourself terribly. It has never happened in the history of numismatics, but there's always a first time. Please keep this in mind. Also, use in a well-ventilated area and do not breathe the fumes directly.

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1-Dammit Boy Oct 14,2003
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<< <i>Actually it could barndog >>
I will have to change my habits. Landlines are safe then?
That being said, nearly no consumer grade electronic devices are intrinsically safe. A land-line telephone is most definitely not intrinsically safe.
Eric
<< <i>what about using a cell phone near acetone? Will that set it off like at the gas station? >>
Mythbusters proved the gas station theory to be a myth. You probably have more of a chance of someone laying into you just BECAUSE you're on a cellphone taking too long and they're waiting in line for gas. Well that's what they said anyway.
The flash point for acetone is -4ºF /-20ºC
Flash point is the lowest temperature at which a liquid can form an ignitable mixture in air near the surface of the liquid. The lower the flash point, the easier it is to ignite the material.
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<< <i>what about using a cell phone near acetone? Will that set it off like at the gas station? >>
Mythbusters proved that to be a myth. You probably have more of a chance of someone laying into you just BECAUSE you're on a cellphone taking too long and they're waiting in line for gas. Well that's what they said anyway. >>
That being said I wouldn't advise it with Acetone. Leave it to the mythbustin' professionals.
I admit, as a physicist and engineer I have an advantage over the layman in that I understand how things work. Even laymen who try to quote science (google helps) often get an incomplete understanding out of context.
To me the most common misunderstanding is the difference between possible, maybe, and likely. Sure acetone can go off in a ball of flames. Sure cell phones aren't certified safe and therefore don't have a govt sticker on them saying they wont' make a spark. But just thinking out of the box, doesn't a cell phone switch look pretty well sealed to you?
I'll give gycomed and cell phone worriers one thing. It is important to worry more about things that will cause catastrophic events more than things that might cause a hangnail. I ask myself "how bad can it get". Both of these can be pretty bad in the unlikely event that they happened.
--Jerry
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<< <i>Everyone has their own set of fears/concerns. Acetone is Gycomeds pet project.
--Jerry >>
Actually, my point, which I tried to convey in my best dripping-with-sarcasm tone, is that there is never a thread about acetone without the attendant warnings to "be very careful." The stuff is actually more apt to fry your liver than turn you into a human torch.
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<< <i>Everyone has their own set of fears/concerns. Acetone is Gycomeds pet project.
--Jerry >>
Actually, my point, which I tried to convey in my best dripping-with-sarcasm tone, is that there is never a thread about acetone without the attendant warnings to "be very careful." The stuff is actually more apt to fry your liver than turn you into a human torch. >>
from drinking it? Or just breathing in the vapors?
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<< <i>Everyone has their own set of fears/concerns. Acetone is Gycomeds pet project.
--Jerry >>
Actually, my point, which I tried to convey in my best dripping-with-sarcasm tone, is that there is never a thread about acetone without the attendant warnings to "be very careful." The stuff is actually more apt to fry your liver than turn you into a human torch. >>
from drinking it? Or just breathing in the vapors? >>
No. Handling acetone is VERY hard on your liver. It seeps through your skin, into your bloodstream and wreaks havoc with your liver. True story.
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<< <i>Everyone has their own set of fears/concerns. Acetone is Gycomeds pet project.
--Jerry >>
Actually, my point, which I tried to convey in my best dripping-with-sarcasm tone, is that there is never a thread about acetone without the attendant warnings to "be very careful." The stuff is actually more apt to fry your liver than turn you into a human torch. >>
from drinking it? Or just breathing in the vapors? >>
No. Handling acetone is VERY hard on your liver. It seeps through your skin, into your bloodstream and wreaks havoc with your liver. True story. >>
no more using it as an industrial hand-wash for me!
<< <i>Step away from the MSDS. >>
I was thinking the same thing
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<< <i>Everyone has their own set of fears/concerns. Acetone is Gycomeds pet project. --Jerry >>
Actually, my point, which I tried to convey in my best dripping-with-sarcasm tone, is that there is never a thread about acetone without the attendant warnings to "be very careful." The stuff is actually more apt to fry your liver than turn you into a human torch. >>
I missed your sarcasm--sometimes hard to do in type. In rereading the term "pet project" may sound belittling. I din't mean it that way. i meant to point out that you've been carrying that torch for a long time. And I wouldn't have even responded if it hadn't expanded to cell phone fires.
so do women who work in nail salons have livers like old alcholics and rock stars? Are you a real gycomed or an amateur like the rest of us?
--Jerry
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<< <i>Actually it could barndog >>
I will have to change my habits. Landlines are safe then? >>
I don't know about landlines, static electricity can build up there too. I do know that landMINES are definitely not safe.
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<< <i> Are you a real gycomed or an amateur like the rest of us?
--Jerry >>
I'm very much a real gyocomgd. The other guys, they're rank amateurs.
<< <i>So then don't miss my liver question. I'm very aware that all MDs get a thorough training in the entire body, not just their specialty. --Jerry >>
Jerry, I can't prolong the charade any longer. My first initial is "g." My last name is "yocom." The letters "gd" stand for the company I work for.
Hence my admittedly goofy screen name, gyocomgd.
There is no gyno, or md, anywhere. Though "gynocologist to the Hollywood stars" has always been a minor fantasy.
The peril of acetone to the user's liver is something I heard, and then read about somewhere.
In its own way, this is one of my favorite threads.
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<< <i>from drinking it? Or just breathing in the vapors? >>
No. Handling acetone is VERY hard on your liver. It seeps through your skin, into your bloodstream and wreaks havoc with your liver. True story. >>
Yes, this is true. Acetone is a known toxin that is aborbed through the skin. In the metallurgical lab in which I worked while doing my undergrad, we used acetone as a rinse all the time. That was before we learned of it's toxic effects.