I believe you are referring to MEKP - the catalyst for polyester and vinylester resins.
If your using the stuff make sure you've an eyewash kit with you. >From recall you've got about 4secs. to flush your eye/s before irreversible damage begins and after 10secs. your blind. It has another fatal characteristic. After a while, particularly if stored above 20deg.c. it becomes unstable and needs to be regarded as a UXB. A friend had a bottle of the stuff explode in his modelling shed. Fortunately he wasn't in the shed when it happened. Noel. -----Original Message----- From: Aus-soaring [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of DMcD Sent: Friday, February 10, 2017 10:09 AM To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Randolph thinners >>MEK is about 1000 times the toxicity of acetone which isn't terrific itself. I saw a safety note about MEK some years ago. The note said that if you get a splash of MEK in your eye, you have about 15 seconds to wash it out. If you don't do this, the MEK will eat away at the cornea and at some time in the future, possibly 15-25 years, you'll start to lose the sight in that eye. I have not seen this warning since, but I avoid MEK if at all possible, and if not, use serious eye protection like a full face mask rather than goggles with ventilation holes. We used some MEK based ink in an industrial inkjet printer some years ago and abandoned it because it gave everyone in the room a headache. D _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring
