Beware of Hazardous materials

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Barrie2777
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Beware of Hazardous materials

Post by Barrie2777 » Sat Dec 11, 2010 5:47 pm

Although common in any workshop, steel wool is a dangerous material. It will burn like paper when given the chance. The attached photo is of a bundle of 0000 steel wool I use to clean up aluminum and other miscellaneous parts during a restoration. This bundle was on my workbench as I used a cut off wheel to cut metal. The sparks landed on the steel wool and started to smoulder, never igniting. The big issue of this story is that I didn't notice the smouldering steel wool and only found this result the next day!!!! I thank the snowmobile Gods that were watching over my machines that night. This came close to looking for another whole collection plus building a workshop and equiping it again.
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Re: Beware of Hazardous materials

Post by Red Devil 500 » Sun Dec 12, 2010 8:12 am

WHOA !!Thats a close call there my friend!!!
502 Diablo
444 Hus Ski
1963 Autoboggen
1962 L55 Polaris
1972 Raider 290
1976 Peterbourgh 18'5ft 165
2007 Honda Rubicon 500

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