nmurph
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i want to tag team on another thread that is currently going on in this forum and tell you about an experience i had this past weekend.
i had gone to Lowe's with the wife and son. i needed some muriatic acid to adjust the PH in my pool and to replace my chainsaw-supply that i had dumped into my pool on thurs. my son is almost 7, a big kid, and is very good about being careful with things when told to do so. when i picked up the jug from the shelf i opened the jug to make sure the seal was in place and then made sure that the lid was on tight. we paid for the acid and he insisted on carrying it to the truck. it was bagged and the wife was walking with him. i headed to the truck to open it up since it was sprinkling rain. as they neared the truck my wife reached to take the bag, when it slipped from her hands and landed on the pavement. somehow this caused the lid to pop off, the seal to rip open, and acid went all over her bare legs and onto my son's arm.
i heard the sound of the jug hitting the pavement and turned to see them standing there. my wife had the stunned look on her face. i asked if it got on her and she it had gotten on her legs and pointed to both. i asked my son the same thing and he said some splashed on his arm. i started screaming for them to head to the restroom and flush the areas with water while i closed the truck. fortunately muriatic acid is dilute and they only suffered some redness and skin irritation that lasted an hour or so, and the velcro on the wife's flip-flops was melted away. i was very relieved that what could have been very serious turned into something relatively minor. if it had been HCL the results would have been much more severe, as i remember from my career as a chemisty student in college.
the moral to the story is that it only takes a second to get hurt because of a chainsaw, even if you are in a parking lot.
i had gone to Lowe's with the wife and son. i needed some muriatic acid to adjust the PH in my pool and to replace my chainsaw-supply that i had dumped into my pool on thurs. my son is almost 7, a big kid, and is very good about being careful with things when told to do so. when i picked up the jug from the shelf i opened the jug to make sure the seal was in place and then made sure that the lid was on tight. we paid for the acid and he insisted on carrying it to the truck. it was bagged and the wife was walking with him. i headed to the truck to open it up since it was sprinkling rain. as they neared the truck my wife reached to take the bag, when it slipped from her hands and landed on the pavement. somehow this caused the lid to pop off, the seal to rip open, and acid went all over her bare legs and onto my son's arm.
i heard the sound of the jug hitting the pavement and turned to see them standing there. my wife had the stunned look on her face. i asked if it got on her and she it had gotten on her legs and pointed to both. i asked my son the same thing and he said some splashed on his arm. i started screaming for them to head to the restroom and flush the areas with water while i closed the truck. fortunately muriatic acid is dilute and they only suffered some redness and skin irritation that lasted an hour or so, and the velcro on the wife's flip-flops was melted away. i was very relieved that what could have been very serious turned into something relatively minor. if it had been HCL the results would have been much more severe, as i remember from my career as a chemisty student in college.
the moral to the story is that it only takes a second to get hurt because of a chainsaw, even if you are in a parking lot.
Its not really even necessary for steel mig/tig/flux core but it sure helps a lot for aluminum and stainless!
