No not kidding. Maybe feeling a little silly for having worried, but not kidding. And I >did< live in CA for almost 10 years, but I don’t think that living elsewhere exempts me from at least considering the warnings that state requires. [:D]
In the end, yeah, we all die of something. I figger that there’s no need to rush it, though. [:)]
I think of it this way- when I was growing up, I did a bunch of modelling using good 'ol plastic and wood glue, and solvent-based paints in my family’s kitchen, in MN winter, meaning little to no ventilation. Did I think anything about it? Hardly- what 10-year-old would, even today? Did my parents think anything about it, even my RN mother? No- they encouraged the hobby.
But TODAY it’s another issue- anyone still paint with solvent-based paints without making durn’ certain you’ve got the ventilation in some way, shape, or form? (That is, paint booth, doing it outside, or at least having window/door open to outside?)
My question may also have been influenced by harking back to my grad-school days in Crocker Nuclear Lab, where I always had a little bit of a creepy feeling along my spine every time I went into “The Cave” where our targets and experiments were. I knew intellectually that so long as we were careful, we wouldn’t get any dose (and, sure-enough, over a year my badge never showed even a tiny bit of clouding…). But… there is that knowledge that, if mis-handled, this can be Bad Stuff, and one must keep one’s wits about one-self.
So, yeah, I probably over-reacted. As noted, assuming I don’t go blowing it around (and I ain’t THAT stupid! [}:)]), clean it up well before the four-year-old (actually my biggest concern…) wanders into the garage, and wash my hands well afterwards*, I should be fine.
Brian Pickering
- [}:)] [:D] [:p] But, waitaminit, I’v