Dirty Jobs "In the Hot Box"

[DaveHawk]

I ended up stripping a bunch of kitchen cabinet doors and drawers this morning. My son came back from a job and saw me stripping and wondered what got into me. I got board. Usually I don't strip much anymore. Fumes get to me bad these days.

[DaveHawk]

the stripping system is called a flow over system. Stripper is in the 5 gal bucket and pumped through the hose and returns to the 5.
The Methyl chloride is heaver then air so the air vent is located next to the floor. As long as I don't lift something fast out of the tub the fumes will seep over the lip of the tub and down to the floor and get sucked out the vent.

stripper can sting a bit if you happen to get a splash, I've had it hit me in the face and eyes , we have to have a eye wash system close by for just an accident like that. You can not ware a mask because the fumes will get trapped inside the mask and your a goner and the methyl will destroy any goggles you ware. So it takes a very careful person to use this system.

[Bayrat]

It can certainly be nasty stuff !!!

I won't use stripper with methyl chloride unless I have to.

Many years ago some info I got from OSHA, or an MSDS sheet, I remember reading that breathing in the fumes from methyl chloride breaks down into carbon monoxide in your system.

When he found out I had a basement wood working shop, a freind who owned a large fuel oil delivery and heat service company on Long Island told me that they had a number of warrentee call backs on new oil burners. They eventually traced the problem to homes where folks were doing furnature stripping in their basements .. when fumes of the methyl chloride mixed with burning fuel oil, it damaged the oil burner combustion chambers.

Bayrat.

[Alan R McDaniel Jr]

I just added another job to my "ain't gonna do it" list.

Alan

[DaveHawk]

Bayrat, that's why I have a very good air venting system. If not for that I would not be using it.