Under the right conditions, brake cleaner can kill you.

NOT a joke!

http://www.brewracingframes.com/id75.htm

Larry, Thanks for finding and posting this important link. Serves as a reminder that we always need to keep SAFETY first in mind. Rodney

Wow, that is pretty scary stuff, and that's the kind of mistake I would easily make. I think we tend to blindly assume that if we can buy stuff it must be "relatively safe", without realizing the potential hazards of seemingly simple combinations or methods of use.

Thanks Larry!

Mark

Very good info indeed Larry. Thanks. I will pass it along to the guys at the shop.

Blaine

Wow. Thanks for sharing. That IS scary.

Larry. Do have to do this? Don't you know that I am nuts enough for the entire bunch of us? I'll be afraid to get out of bed.

Sheesh. I use carb and brake cleaners all the time. I use them to clean everything.

I'll never use it in an enclosed area again!

Oh yea...you're so smart...so why aren't there warning labels not printed on ammonia and fertilizer...not to mix them, huh?

There are warnings on the gasoline pumps of not to douse yourself in it and light a match!

Then again, sometimes shit just happens. A couple years back I was in the attic treating some termites to terminex, and a few drops accidently dropped on a hot spot light I had. For about a year my leg muscles were twitching, very low endurance, high pitch in my ears all the time...essentially felt like calling 911 almost daily as it really felt like I was going to die. Coincidently I had taken Keflex penicillin for an infection at the same time, so the Doctors still don't know what really occurred, maybe bad drug reaction, poisoning from that interaction with the chemical on the light, or something else, who knows. But anyway, now I am much more careful with chemicals & such. Live and learn, sometimes the hard way.

Wow !
Thanks for this.
I hope he gets better.
Just goes to show, anything can happen, at any time !