Featured Hot Rods When was lead based paint banned in the USA?

I thought it was paste in school?

 

Lead paint aint gonna hurt you. You graduated from high school and college already havent you?.......Just drink plenty of beer.

Hell, Gene Winfield lived to 97, Im sure he sucked in plenty of lead paint dust

I remember as a infant chewing on a window sil that was painted with lead paint . Tasty
I have several colors cans of old One Shot paint with lead. It covers way better than the new lead free crap

 

For many, yes, but for others, no.

What percentage was from lead?

 

And Sam Barris, doing the same thing, died at 43 what's your point? Both antidotal points that prove nothing.

 

Says the guy who just quoted the results of occupational levels of exposure. I agree with whoever said the average hobbyist is fine as long as they don't snort it.

 

I'd have to say that you take what precautions you feel work for you and yours and call it good.

 

You fucked me up! One of my unfiltered free shots to someone is, "Damn, did you eat a lotta paint chips as a kid?" Now I can't drop it here. Wait, I just did. WTF...

 

There is no safe level of lead exposure. Any amount does damage.

You oldsters have already been exposed to far more that you are aware.

Why gamble that the "extra" is enough to tip the scales?

 

I guess the next thread we can expect is “How much asbestos is in brake and clutch dust”

 

I used a test at home lead kit made by 3M. The results returned with no lead which I was surprised.

 

Everyone is different. Just because one person was left unharmed does not mean it will not harm another. Better to be safe.

 

Long term exposure to lots of things can have numerous negative effects on the body.
Long term exposure to LIFE can have numerous negative effects on the body.
In the OP's situation with the paint dust, best to err on the side of caution, without diving into total paranoia.

 

Too true 28, almost as bad as long term exposure to shopping malls with the ol lady...

 

Besides lead what else is in old autobody paint that can harm. I'm running into filler also.

 

Bondo has talc in it. It’s safe enough for a baby’s bottom.

 

But talc contains asbestos. Living life will kill you. No need to be afraid of it though, just do like you would with your girlfriend and take precautions.

 

Yeah I thought they banned Talcum powder

 

I heard of a guy that always practiced safe sex. Got killed by a pissed off husband.

 

hard to say among folks who live in modern society. All the old folks got exposed to lead from car exhaust for decades...

 

Or when they were licking window frames !

 

I thought about heading off this exact comment. Just because you can measure something statistically doesn't mean it's actually meaningful to any individual.



In any case it's safer and far less likely to many anyone go postal than having to share a society with the kind of people who get bent out of shape over incidental hobby grade exposure to the kinds of things that are so mildly harmful you need study after study after study to quantify just how mildly harmful they are in small doses.

I'm not gonna give up beer or red meat either since that's probably your next question.

Because if we listened to every twat who told us to care about something we'd have no time or money left to do the things we actually want to do.

I get that in the communist utopia of some people's minds other people's time and money doesn't have value and is unlimited but in reality it very much is and at some point tradeoffs have to be made. A basic mask and work procedure that avoids superfluous dust is good enough for most hobbyists.

 

Turns out it wasn't , probably why it was banned ...

 

LOL!!!
Good one.

Ben

 

Hope you don't live in Commiefornia. This post may result in a swat team breaking down your door.

 

The red meat will help with exposure to lead. Don't give that up!

 

Russian Roulette is perfectly safe, until it's not.

 

Will if they used copper bullets instead of lead bullets it would be alot safer.

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You only have to worry about it if you live in California because everything in California causes cancer, it's ok everywhere else..

Larry

Edit: driving is also safe until it's not.

 

And my 97 year old mother smoked for 45 years, Does not make it safe or a good idea.

 

I think the fact that you're reduced to such absurd comparisons speaks for itself.