Billy Lane 45" Frabrication

[RooDog]

Check this out....

[Raytag]

I was just about to post my thoughts here when I started to look at the comments
of this vid and realized that my impressions are way off everybody elses

[animal12]

I watched it & though I don't have all the know-how as most of you folks here . I saw a flaw or tow with the biggest no-no of cleaning up metal with brake cleaner before welding . Thats a real good way to wake up dead or spend the rest of your life on a respirator.
animal

[RooDog]

Reference this....

https://www.thefabricator.com/thewelder ... urn-deadly

Now,my question is once the brake clean has evaporated, gone away, is the danger still present?

I often use BC in my shop efforts, it is a mainstay, next to lacquer thinner as a cleaning agent. But the brand I use is flammable, so I do wait until it disburses before torching my work pieces. Let's not panic here, fellas, and use a little common sense in the shop....
Or, am I way wrong here?

Mr Lane is a mechanical engineer, and a top notch fabricator, been building custom bikes for way over thirty years. I first met him at the Powersports Expo in Indy in the 1990s when he had a chop job featuring two front Shovel heads with rerward facing Linkert carbs, a la the XR750 racing Sportys. Crazy wacko stuff. Must be why he was known as Psyco Billy....
....RooDog....

[1950Panhead]

I often use BC in my shop efforts, it is a mainstay, next to lacquer thinner as a cleaning agent. But the brand I use is flammable, so I do wait until it disburses before torching my work pieces. Let's not panic here, fellas, and use a little common sense in the shop....
Or, am I way wrong here?

Tetrachloroethylene when heated makes Phosgene gas, it can kill you.
https://www.envirofluid.com/articles/te ... e-cleaner/

[RooDog]

Any and all fumed generate in the welding process are harmful. Don't breath any of that shit.
And don't be huffing, paint thinner, gasoline, or brake clean.... Duh ! ! !....

[animal12]

Yea , from what I recall from teh original post the residue left will still kill . The guy that posted what I read said he requires breathing aids now !!!
I always use acetone .


animal

[Mark44]

Tetrachloroethylene when heated makes Phosgene gas, it can kill you.
https://www.envirofluid.com/articles/te ... e-cleaner/

Auto parts stores now sell non-chlorinated forms of brake cleaner. As far as I know these don't have the same health hazards as the older ones that use tetrachloroethylene.

There was an article in American Iron Magazine some years back by a guy who had used a chlorinated brake cleaner on a piece of steel, and then did some welding on it. He saw a white puff that he breathed in, which caused some very serious and ongoing health problems.

[RooDog]

I, personally, use a non chlorinated BC from Advance Auto Parts. It works quite well, and is still flammable enough to use to prime a crab....

[Mark44]

I, personally, use a non chlorinated BC from Advance Auto Parts. It works quite well, and is still flammable enough to use to prime a crab....

My preference is to boil crabs rather than torch them with brake cleaner...

[RooDog]

Ha Ha Ha... Priming a carb is to help get an engine to start. I use it on my truck after it has set long enough for the carbby to evaporate dry, and I don't want to grind the starter 'til the pump fills the carb. A squirt of brake clean, or a shot of lacquer thinner will get it to fire right up, and the pump does the rest.
But I will try boiling it the next time the bowl dries out....
....RooDog....