"Buerste" wrote in message
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"Stupendous Man" wrote in message
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I have been doing quite a bit of lathe work using a kool-mist this week
and due to cold weather have the shop closed up. I came down with a flu or
something on day 2.
They spec sheet says it totally safe, but does anyone know something
different?
Maybe just the fact that I have been breathing a lot of water vapor could
make it easier to get sick?
--
Stupendous Man,
Defender of Freedom, Advocate of Liberty


I won't breathe that stuff anymore, it makes me sick. I wonder if I could
fill the thing with Vodka?

You could fill it with peanut oil, like they do at Volkswagen, but I don't
know how they treat it. But don't take this seriously. They must have a
sophisticated atomizer of some kind, and the Kook-Mist rig probably won't
handle the viscosity. It sure works great for VW, however.

There were several epidemiological studies, mostly done in Europe, that
showed all kinds of problems resulting from mist coolant. However, I doubt
if they tried the Kool-Mist formulas, which are supposed to be benign.

Benign, schemign, I'm not breathing no steenking atomized chemicals. I have
no idea how they're getting away with it, because the active chemical (butyl
acetate?) is identified as a hazard to eyes and lungs when you look at the
chemical itself.

It could be that there is no evidence that such a dilute solution is a
hazard. Still, it's not for me.

--
Ed Huntress