Lead Paint, Body work at home? |
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Lead Paint, Body work at home? |
MBowman325 |
Sep 19 2017, 03:17 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 465 Joined: 14-July 05 From: Oklahoma City, OK Member No.: 4,413 Region Association: Southwest Region |
So I think I may have time to start working on cars again. At the very least I have some extra panels I was gonna use to play with sanding / welding and put the younger Michael to work hand sanding based off how many "F"s he managed to earn. In related news I also have a new little one (four weeks old Thursday).
So, while planning on work on a 1964 C10 I realized that the paint was probably lead based. Then I realized I had no idea when lead paint quit being used. A test kit looks to have confirmed that my wife's '70 and a panel from a '73 are positive for lead. So... Are there any mitigation strategies for stripping lead based paint at home? (I'll leave the actual disposal of dust / whatever to another topic at some other point). Do body shops do anything special when working with older vehicles? |
SirAndy |
Sep 19 2017, 05:10 PM
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Resident German Group: Admin Posts: 41,644 Joined: 21-January 03 From: Oakland, Kalifornia Member No.: 179 Region Association: Northern California |
Please don't expose your kids to lead in any shape or form ...
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MBowman325 |
Sep 19 2017, 05:37 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 465 Joined: 14-July 05 From: Oklahoma City, OK Member No.: 4,413 Region Association: Southwest Region |
Please don't expose your kids to lead in any shape or form ... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) No, I have no plans to. I hadn't thought of my cars from the 70s as having lead based paint. Having done previous work on the Aero, sanding makes a heck of a mess dust-wise. I wasn't sure if there was a way to safely do what I want at home and there isn't much info I've found online so far (other than Australia and a mention to wet sand). My Aero has lead filler (the guy I'd worked with stripping that down came around saying 'quit sanding there!' as I was sanding at the filler line....) If I can't safely do it at home I'll do something else (which seems like chemical strippers would be the only way and they have their own issues). I have absolutely no interest in adding negative modifiers to my children's lives. Short of some sort of negative pressure booth with HEPA filters, a shower station and wash down area, lead contamination at some level seems like a sure thing. |
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