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TEKA Teak Cleaner - What is in it?
Coudn't find it... |
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TEKA Teak Cleaner - What is in it?
Thanks for all the answers! Next time I will try the paint store. |
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TEKA Teak Cleaner - What is in it?
Rich Hampel wrote:
In most teak cleaners Part A is usually a caustic such as TSP (TriSodiumPhosphate) Part B is usually oxalic acid You can buy these in a hardware or paint store at a FRACTION of the cost from a 'boat store'. Most caustics will dissolve the oil from you skin. Oxalic will rapidly absorb through your skin, then accumulate and do great cumulative harm to you kidneys ... so wear gloves when working with part B [...] Where does this come from? I have constantly seen references to rapid skin absorption of oxalic acid. Yet as a professional in the chemical engineering field, I have never seen any literature referring to that property (and here I am not talking to the "chemicals are evil" scare literature, cf. http://www.dhmo.org for a parody). At worst, oxalic acid is listed as a skin irritant. I grant you that it is a powerful systemic poison - when ingested. bob |
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TEKA Teak Cleaner - What is in it?
RW Salnick writes:
Where does this come from? No use starting a rhubarb over this. |
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TEKA Teak Cleaner - What is in it?
Now thats funny.
In article , Richard J Kinch wrote: RW Salnick writes: Where does this come from? No use starting a rhubarb over this. |
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TEKA Teak Cleaner - What is in it?
I have no idea what the answer to your question is and to further show my
ignorance: Isn't DHMO the industrial cleaning agent that was reported to have curative effects for arthritis while causing garlic breath? BF "RW Salnick" wrote in message ... Rich Hampel wrote: In most teak cleaners Part A is usually a caustic such as TSP (TriSodiumPhosphate) Part B is usually oxalic acid You can buy these in a hardware or paint store at a FRACTION of the cost from a 'boat store'. Most caustics will dissolve the oil from you skin. Oxalic will rapidly absorb through your skin, then accumulate and do great cumulative harm to you kidneys ... so wear gloves when working with part B [...] Where does this come from? I have constantly seen references to rapid skin absorption of oxalic acid. Yet as a professional in the chemical engineering field, I have never seen any literature referring to that property (and here I am not talking to the "chemicals are evil" scare literature, cf. http://www.dhmo.org for a parody). At worst, oxalic acid is listed as a skin irritant. I grant you that it is a powerful systemic poison - when ingested. bob |
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TEKA Teak Cleaner - What is in it?
BF wrote:
I have no idea what the answer to your question is and to further show my ignorance: Isn't DHMO the industrial cleaning agent that was reported to have curative effects for arthritis while causing garlic breath? BF "RW Salnick" wrote in message ... Rich Hampel wrote: In most teak cleaners Part A is usually a caustic such as TSP (TriSodiumPhosphate) Part B is usually oxalic acid You can buy these in a hardware or paint store at a FRACTION of the cost from a 'boat store'. Most caustics will dissolve the oil from you skin. Oxalic will rapidly absorb through your skin, then accumulate and do great cumulative harm to you kidneys ... so wear gloves when working with part B [...] Where does this come from? I have constantly seen references to rapid skin absorption of oxalic acid. Yet as a professional in the chemical engineering field, I have never seen any literature referring to that property (and here I am not talking to the "chemicals are evil" scare literature, cf. http://www.dhmo.org for a parody). At worst, oxalic acid is listed as a skin irritant. I grant you that it is a powerful systemic poison - when ingested. I think you may be confusing DHMO (DiHydrogenMonoxide) with DMSO (DiMethylSulphoxide). bob |
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TEKA Teak Cleaner - What is in it?
Chris wrote:
Coudn't find it... Go look again. I buy it there all the time. The brand name is "Goodwins." It says, "For Cleaner Laundry" across the top. |
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TEKA Teak Cleaner - What is in it?
In article .com,
"Chris" wrote: Does anybody know the ingredients of TEKA A and B? I am wondering a bucket of what I should have ready to quickly rinse off / flush away spills of TEKA A when cleaning trim. (Soapy water? Vinegar solution? Sth. else?), and also what protection is appropriate. (Rubber gloves?) The answers are in Bruce van Sant's "The Gentleman's Guide to Passages South, The Thornless Path to Windward." Of COURSE I could give the answers (from the top of my head), but I believe you'll get quite a bit more out of that book that will serve you well. Before others respond that he's a "do as I say, not as I do" type of guy: It doesn't matter as he gives HOPE to many, and there are a bunch of great tips for the inexperienced. He's not inexperienced, so the rules differ for him and those who have experience. -- Jere Lull Xan-a-Deux ('73 Tanzer 28 #4 out of Tolchester, MD) Xan's Pages: http://members.dca.net/jerelull/X-Main.html Our BVI FAQs (290+ pics) http://homepage.mac.com/jerelull/BVI/ |
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