scootr
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Baby Cribs where painted with chew resistant lead based paint.
Airplane glue brought an interesting memory, I was about 14 and at our 2 acre lake wandered what if I squirted a tube of it standing at end of boat dock. It immediately covered lake!!! I pulled up 2 acres of Saran wrap! Of course super thin. Very weird.Wow, I forgot. that. So was shaving cream and kitchen items. Model airplane glue was in lead tubes.
I thought outdoor house paint had lead in it. I was told a gallon weighed 40 lbs? Think that's true?
Yeah well, I didn't break the window and I drove home. It's a lot better to carry spare key and other tools.Broken window VS stuck in the woods. Window is easy to replace. Takes less than an hour.
They outlawed lead in house paint in the 50's I think; I was a house painter in the early 60's, and we had to mix it special if we wanted to use it.Wow, I forgot. that. So was shaving cream and kitchen items. Model airplane glue was in lead tubes.
I thought outdoor house paint had lead in it. I was told a gallon weighed 40 lbs? Think that's true?
Nope! Try 1978! Congress actually passed a bill in 1971, as an early measure, but it was 1978 before the CPSC clamped down and the stuff actually left the store shelves.They outlawed lead in house paint in the 50's I think; I was a house painter in the early 60's, and we had to mix it special if we wanted to use it.
I don't think the paint stores here carried lead paint; at least that was why I concluded that the contractor I worked for had to make his own. We never used lead paint on new homes; only well-to do remodels. Thank goodness we didn't do many repaints where we had to sand the old paint.Nope! Try 1978! Congress actually passed a bill in 1971, as an early measure, but it was 1978 before the CPSC clamped down and the stuff actually left the store shelves.
I'd believe you if you said it was already losing popularity for interior projects, prior to that. I don't really know when people began to realize lead was a hazard, in paint.
Most folks don't realize that lead isn't really very dangerous, in most forms. Specifically, it's lead dust from sanding or pulverizing paint, that causes most problems. Old houses with lead paint on the woodwork do not create a hazard, until someone comes in and starts sanding down the woodwork for repaint, or the paint starts peeling and some kid eats the stuff. It is most dangerous as a respiratory hazard.
Do you recall how much a gallon of lead paint weighed?They outlawed lead in house paint in the 50's I think; I was a house painter in the early 60's, and we had to mix it special if we wanted to use it.