[sdiy] Cutting Wire to Length

[Neil Johnson]

cheater00 . wrote:
> I read that precisely paradichlorobenzene precludes any sort of oxides
> building. I'm told people keep that stuff in tool boxes. This came up
> on a thread where someone was complaining about their Craftsman tools
> releasing butyric acid and smelling like puke. Apparently PDB masks
> that quite well, which, among being inexpensive and preventing
> corrosion is just one of its many virtues.

Umm... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1,4-Dichlorobenzene

"Under California's Proposition 65, p-DCB is listed as "known to the
State to cause cancer"."

Also: http://www.informinc.org/green_cleaning/respiratory_hazards_restroom_deodorant_blocks.pdf

"Some restroom and urinal deodorant blocks contain paradichlorobenzene
(p-dichlorobenzene, 1,4-dichlorobenzene, or “para”), a
respiratory irritant that can trigger an asthma attack in a person who
already has asthma. Exposure to paradichlorobenzene occurs
primarily indoors, from products such as deodorant blocks and
mothballs.1 Para persists in the environment, and the National
Toxicology Program reports that it is reasonably anticipated to be a
human carcinogen.2"

Nice stuff.  There's also the question of whether it will have any
effect on the plasticizer in the PVC insulation.

Better stick to air-tight containers and silica gel packs.

Neil
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