Is it any safer using a polish like Mothers Chrome and Mag Wheel? I use it on a regular basis for cleaning up faded aluminum components. It works great but is it just as unsafe?
Bob Pepper Bordentown, NJ
-----Original Message-----
>From: Tom Sanders <tsan7759142@sbcglobal.net>
>Sent: Oct 24, 2007 12:10 PM
>To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
>Subject: [CR]More on the dangers of metal polishing
>
>It has been a few years since we visited this subject and I thought it might
>do well to remind folks or inform new comers of yet another danger.
>
>If you are using something like a Dremmel Tool it is essential that you wear
>some sort of protective dust mask. It is much worse if you are using
>Semi-Chrome. I got really sick a few years ago doing this without a mask
>and a Boston Area friend wrote that Semi-Chrome has an ingredient that is
>not even legal to use in American industry because it is something like a
>Class Two Carcinogen. Some derivative of Ammonia, I believe. Thanks again
>Ken!
>
>Tom Sanders
>
>Lansing, Mi USA