Nothing like a cold splash of 100LL in the face to wake up a pilot

The teraethyl lead in the avgas will rapidly absorb thru your skin
into your bloodstream. Your eyeballs will absorb it at least an order
of magnitude more quickly than your skin. Getting large quantities of
leaded gasoline on you needs to be washed off with soap and lots of
water asap. Too much repeated exposure to TEL thru skin absorbption
this way, and you might even want to have a blood test done to check
how much lead you've accumulated and if you need to be administered
some calcium EDTA orally or IV, depending on how much lead is in your
soft tissues.

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says...

Nathan Young wrote:

I was impressed at how quickly the fuel evaporated, though. Despite
getting it all over my shirt, too, there was no detectable odor ten
minutes later. If it had been auto fuel, I would still reek today.



I've noticed this too. Avgas seems to evaporate quickly, and stink much less
than automobile gasoline. After I use my GATTS jar, I can leave it out during
the rest of a pre-flight (a few minutes) then put it back in my flight bag.
When I get home, there is no detectable odor in the flight bag.

G Faris

"Icebound" wrote in message
. rogers.com...

"tscottme" wrote in message
...
...
Some A&Ps also use low-lead as a parts cleaner. I've had my hands
soaked
in it
pretty often and the cuts on your hands notice but it's not then end of
the
world to get fuel on you. ...

That doesn't sound too safe.
Are they (and you) not concerned with the fire hazard, and the lead health
hazard? While children are more susceptible than adults, I still don't
think I would want to put my hands in it every day as part of my job.....


Can't think of a parts cleaner that isn't flammable, certainly not one as
cheap as just a couple bucks per gallon, and available in each aircraft.
After the part is thoroughly dry, it's no more flammable than fresh out of
the box. Besides, you'd have ready access to 100LL from draining tanks or
from sump samples. We didn't bathe in it, we might splash a bit dropping a
part in a pail and get our hand wet picking the part out of a pail. Shops
bigger than my previous one-man-band operation would have Safety-Kleen
basins.


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Scott

"G Farris" wrote in message
...
In article ,
says...

Nathan Young wrote:

I was impressed at how quickly the fuel evaporated, though. Despite
getting it all over my shirt, too, there was no detectable odor ten
minutes later. If it had been auto fuel, I would still reek today.



I've noticed this too. Avgas seems to evaporate quickly, and stink much
less
than automobile gasoline. After I use my GATTS jar, I can leave it out
during
the rest of a pre-flight (a few minutes) then put it back in my flight
bag.
When I get home, there is no detectable odor in the flight bag.

G Faris


I can confirm what you say about avgas vs. auto gas. After having used
100LL for its cleaning ability, I tried using auto gas to clean some car
parts. I could barely stand to be near the stuff. It smelled much worse
and was highly irritating. One experiment with auto gas was enough to make
me stop.

--
Scott

What would you call a 51 year old man that marries a 6 year old girl?
Muslims call him Prophet Muhammad.
http://www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/sina/ayesha.htm

"Peter R." wrote in message Anyone ever get splashed in the face with
100LL while refueling at a self-serve pump?

I spilled Jet-A down the front of me once. After a half hour, the kerosine
starts irritating and burning the sensitive portions inside of one's
blue-jeans.

D.

"Capt.Doug" wrote in message
...
"Peter R." wrote in message Anyone ever get splashed in the face with
100LL while refueling at a self-serve pump?

I spilled Jet-A down the front of me once. After a half hour, the kerosine
starts irritating and burning the sensitive portions inside of one's
blue-jeans.

D.

Ever get lacquer thinner in large quantities on your skin?

One time, I stopped by a guy's shop to visit, and when I sat down at a
picnic bench, I didn't notice the lacquer thinner soaked rags I sat on.
That is, until I felt the wet sensation, followed very shortly by the
burning sensation, which grew and grew to some very intense levels. I
dropped my drawers, right there in the shop, and washed my backside and my
jeans out in the lav, until it was all gone. The burn still didn't go away
for a long time.

This was only on my thighs. I don't want to think about if it had been a
few inches higher :-0
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On 26-Sep-2004, "Morgans" wrote:

This was only on my thighs. I don't want to think about if it had been a
few inches higher :-0

I had a motorcycle accident once. Due to some misunderstanding on the part
of my opponent (i.e. failure to understanding the importance of staying
awake while driving) I collided frontally. I was launched over the handle
bars of my bike while the (just filled) tank was crushed, thus drenching me
in petrol from chest to knees. After some minutes (spent underneat a car)
it began to "soak in". I stripped then and there...

"Morgans" wrote in message Ever get lacquer thinner in large quantities
on your skin?

Mineral spirits!

D.

"Capt.Doug" wrote in message
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"Morgans" wrote in message Ever get lacquer thinner in large quantities
on your skin?

Mineral spirits!

D.

Na! That's for sissies. Try lacquer thinner, if you want a real lift!
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"Morgans" wrote in message ...

Na! That's for sissies. Try lacquer thinner, if you want a real lift!

I'll take your wimpy lacquer thinner ass-bath, and raise you a
thumbnail detached nearly to the quick while loosening a corroded
steel flare fitting in an anti-ice system. Overhead, inside the belly
panel of a Twin Beech.

Didn't bother to drain the alcohol out of the tank-the elbow
fractured, wrench departed, removed the thumbnail on a nearby
structural member, and drenched the wound thoroughly (along with the
hand, the arm to the elbow, hair, face, even had a little running down
the ol' ass-crack) with the contents.

Least I didn't have to worry about infection, and was really glad I
wasn't using a drop-light for illumination....

TC