So today I went to Lowes....

[big2bird]

And my wife buys a Halloween ornament thingy on sale for $15.00. I have given up on USA made such trinkets, so I buy it. I get home, plug it in, and it actually works. Now meanwhile, my son reads the stupid directions.

"Warningrop 65 warning:Handling the coated electrical wires of this product exposes you to lead, a chemical known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects, and other reproductive harm. wash hands after use."

I can't fuggin believe this.
A known conductor in the rubber insulation of the wire?:shocking: Hazardous to boot?:crap:



I can only come to the conclusion that China's answer to toxic waste is to dilute it in all exported goods, and ship it out of the country.:ill:

 

[JPhil]

The Chinese have studied the writings of everyone from Siddhartha to Milton Friedman to Che Guevara to P T Barnum and learned from them all....and they have patience....

 

[redvetracr]

you should have waited until tomorrow, all that crap will be 1/2 off.....:rain:

 

[big2bird]

you should have waited until tomorrow, all that crap will be 1/2 off.....:rain:

It was. They put all the Xmas crap out BEFORE Halloween.

 

[Stpman]

At the power plant I'm working at a lot of the parts from China came in large steel frame painted with .........Lead paint

 

[mrvette]

BFD, been handling LEAD/tin/antimony on solder for some 55 years now, since age 10, grew up in a LEAD paint house....I didn't EAT the friggin' paint....

must have sweated 500000000 miles of copper pipe too.....more joints than most hippys have smoked....

there is nothing the matter with memmemmmmeme......

:bounce::amazed::clobbered:

 

[big2bird]

So, I have to ask. I understand lead in solder, batteries, and such applications. WTF does lead DO for paint, anyhow? (Except marine. That I get).

 

[JPhil]

It makes it durable, lustrous, impervious, weatherproof, & flow & spread well & evenly. Everything you would want in a paint. It is the reason the old paint in old houses still looks so good & is such good condition compared to modern paints. Modern (post 1987 in America, if I remember right, which is suspect at this point in the night) 'latex' etc paints are second class coverings compared to good old lead base paint. It still is used for street paint (in America) & industrial uses (well, overseas at least) and so as long as you don't go out and lick street markings for 18 hours a day you should be safe.....
Actually, the colors you can put into it to make it attractive were only secondary to the practical uses it has when mixed into a paint, ie, protective surface applied compound.

(But if you want to remodel your house & need to disturb more than 32 square feet of potentially lead base painted surface, you better go get that required state permit & prepare for a $20,000, 6-month "lead paint remidiation" addition to your little remodel project, with full house tenting and space-suited men scraping & cleaning & vacuuming & testing every surface including the dirt for a hundred feet around) ( for the sake of the little children in the future, of course) ( what are you some kind of cretin that you are are only concerned about yourself right now, you jerk?)
(& you better think about all that asbestos in your house too--in that popcorn ceiling & the
linoleum kitchen floor & the siding & roof---ohmyfuckinggod it's just as insideous & dangerous and the little children will all die horrible deaths if you don't spend that another $20,000 to get it remidiated as well!!!)

 

[big2bird]

Iv'e seen the so called cure. I did a gig one summer at a High Schhol. Outside, I saw two guys in suits removing the asbestos ceiling, while across the sidewalk, a summer school class was in session. You could see the fibers in the sunlight gently flowing into the classroom door.:goodevilI was tossing some asbestos covered wire in the dumpster). :rofl:
A classic case of more harm than good.

 

[BangkokDean]

Good old USA............................the land of litigation.................:flash:

 

[mrvette]

Iv'e seen the so called cure. I did a gig one summer at a High Schhol. Outside, I saw two guys in suits removing the asbestos ceiling, while across the sidewalk, a summer school class was in session. You could see the fibers in the sunlight gently flowing into the classroom door.:goodevilI was tossing some asbestos covered wire in the dumpster). :rofl:
A classic case of more harm than good.

Good old USA............................the land of litigation.................:flash:

Bird, why would WIRE have asbestos on it?? was it that old gray/cloth shit they used to use years ago?? sorta silver color?? with brown paper over the jacketed wires??

and yes, Dean, the lawyers and judges have ruined this country, which is why lawyers should not hold ANY public office of any kind....

:beer:

 

[big2bird]

Iv'e seen the so called cure. I did a gig one summer at a High Schhol. Outside, I saw two guys in suits removing the asbestos ceiling, while across the sidewalk, a summer school class was in session. You could see the fibers in the sunlight gently flowing into the classroom door.:goodevilI was tossing some asbestos covered wire in the dumpster). :rofl:
A classic case of more harm than good.

Good old USA............................the land of litigation.................:flash:

Bird, why would WIRE have asbestos on it?? High temp applicationwas it that old gray/cloth shit they used to use years ago?? Nosorta silver color?? Nowith brown paper over the jacketed wires??No

This wire was from the old style stage dimming boards, with the GIANT rheostats and GIANT Variacs. The new one is smaller than an apartment fridge, and does more.

 

[mrvette]

Iv'e seen the so called cure. I did a gig one summer at a High Schhol. Outside, I saw two guys in suits removing the asbestos ceiling, while across the sidewalk, a summer school class was in session. You could see the fibers in the sunlight gently flowing into the classroom door.:goodevilI was tossing some asbestos covered wire in the dumpster). :rofl:
A classic case of more harm than good.

Good old USA............................the land of litigation.................:flash:

Bird, why would WIRE have asbestos on it?? High temp applicationwas it that old gray/cloth shit they used to use years ago?? Nosorta silver color?? Nowith brown paper over the jacketed wires??No

This wire was from the old style stage dimming boards, with the GIANT rheostats and GIANT Variacs. The new one is smaller than an apartment fridge, and does more.

OH GOD, certainly nothing like Hollywood just up the street from you, but I remember GIANT variac, well giant for ME, about 8-12" diameter we used for kleig light dimmers in HS yet....I got rid of a couple of them to a old buddy, the one with all the old radio/comm gear on my site...he be about the only guy in the country anymore that would have wanted them....

tell you what a GEEK I am, I have some 400? watt variacs in my garage yet today....3 of them, as I recall....last use for one of them was 30 years ago for powering up Sony color TV sets....under a specific test sequence to keep from smoking the things yet again....

:bonkers::yahoo::flash: