I work with lye all the time making Edison
brown wax recording blank cylinders for antique
cylinder phonographs.
As long as you don't splash it up into your eyes
it is fine. Wear safety glasses.
If you get it on your skin, get it off quickly.
You will feel a slippery feeling between your fingers.
Wash that off using lots of tap water, because if you
forget and leave it on there, it turns your skin
into a pasty goo that comes off!
I keep a large bucket of fresh cold water handy when
I am working with lye. If I get any on my hands I just
plunge them quickly into the bucket and wash the lye
solution off. That is much quicker than taking the
time to run to the sink.
Lye is as safe or dangerous as anything else really.
Check my website to see what I use lye to make:
http://www.richardslaboratories.comChuck
>
>
>---- Original Message ----
>From: dyls@...
>To: Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] lye
>Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 21:26:53 +0000
>
>>You can buy it on ebay (at least on ebay UK).
>>
>>Then again, I've seen hydrofluoric acid on ebay. What could possibly
>go
>>wrong?
>>
>>El 30/03/13 21:04, Stefan Trethan escribió:
>>> It's either the drug makers or the terrorists that spoil our fun.
>>> What's the next common household chemical they will take away for
>our own
>>> good, sodium chloride perhaps?
>>>
>>> Anyway, I don't see how sodium hydroxide is more dangerous than
>some of the
>>> other chemicals we work with, like hydrochloric acid.
>>>
>>> ST
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 9:52 PM, Roland Harriston
><rolohar@...>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Rick Sparber:
>>>>
>>>> Lye crystals have been withdrawn from many markets because they
>were
>>>> being used to make illegal drugs and you can no longer purchase
>lye
>>>> crystals at your local grocery store or hardware store.
>>>>
>>>> I used to buy it at my local Safeway market, but it is gone from
>there,
>>>> and all of the
>>>> other supermarkets in my area (Oro Valley, Arizona)
>>>>
>>>> Roland F. Harriston, P.D.
>>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>>
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