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10/11/2007, 04:58 PM
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Beware PVC!
Found this while searching for some PVC parts online. Thought some of you might enjoy it seeing as a large portion of us use it in this very hobby!
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10/12/2007, 01:56 AM
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ARGGG!!!
I hate that uninformed push to rid the world of PVC!  Yes, PVC is toxic. However, the average homeowner will never encounter PVC's toxicity. In order to be toxic, you need to inhale PVC dust (which isn't gonna happen unless you are cutting the stuff daily) or burn the plastic. The latter is where most homeowners will get exposed to the toxins. However, if your PVC pipes are burning, leave your house, go to the neighbor's and call 911. Your house is on fire. If you think PVC is bad, take a look at Dihydrogen Monoxide: http://www.dhmo.org/ Quote:
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10/12/2007, 02:41 PM
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Seriously though, there are many things in the home that are far worse than PVC. Chlorine is deadly in large amounts and toxic in small amounts, and yet we allow our kids to swim in chlorinated pools, we drink chlorinated water and wash clothes in chlorine bleach. Every time we do so, we are ingesting chlorine and exposing ourselves to chlorine fumes. Where is push to ban chlorine? The same can be said for ammonia, but we'll gladly plunk down money for cleaners with ammonia. Does anyone know that all metals, save for titanium, are toxic? Too much (or too little, for that matter) iron in your blood will kill you. Too much copper will do the same. And yet, I find iron and its derivatives everywhere, and can even buy food preparation tools made of iron. The same thing goes for copper, and the chlorinated water you're drinking probably comes out of a copper pipe. Unfortunately, logic does not prevail with these people. Thats why PVC has been banned in several municipalities, mainly in California (no surprise there...) and all of Europe. Pretty soon, all technological advancement will be banned and we'll all be living in mud and straw lean-to's, or rather would, if it were not for the fairy shrimp. Can't dig dirt to make the mud. So I guess we'll all live in caves. But we can't do that either since by doing so we'll kill countless endangered blind salamanders. And God know we can't cut down trees to make shelters. We are gonna be royally screwed in a few decades...
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10/12/2007, 03:03 PM
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 Lets break this down di = 2 hydrogen = H oxide = single oxygen (O) Time for elementary school math... (2+H) + O = H2O Anyone who has seen "Waterboy" knows that. Oddly enough Snopes has some fine bathroom reading about it. It makes me sad to think how far the human race has come.
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10/12/2007, 03:06 PM
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 Actually, the whole myth of "dihydrogen monoxide" more or less proves my point. You can spin the info on just about anything to make it dangerous, bad, evil, etc., and possibly even get it banned. What would have happened if that California city had not discovered the paralegal's prank and voted to ban water? Of course, it would have been quickly fixed, but the fact that it got that far says something... And its not good...
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10/12/2007, 03:13 PM
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10/12/2007, 05:16 PM
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PVC=Bad
Plumbers Union=Good That's California. SteveU
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10/12/2007, 08:22 PM
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I need to put in for hazardous duty pay. Thousands of gallons of running seawater carried by a few thousand feet of PVC pipe is scary stuff
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10/12/2007, 08:27 PM
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hahah I had an instructor use the H20 one on my class. 3/4 of the class raised thier hands when he asked them - Would you like to help us rid the planet of this vile chemical?"
It was hard not to laugh, one poor lady couldn't get it even after it was explained
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10/12/2007, 09:23 PM
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DHMO.
 yes! let us rid the world of this evil, vile substance!!!! wait........HEEYYYYY!!!!!!!
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10/12/2007, 09:25 PM
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and if you are channeling dihydrogen monoxide through pvc, you are just asking for trouble......
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10/12/2007, 09:31 PM
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PVC contains dioxins????????? Mercury?????? Phthalates?????
ummmm....Yeahhhhh....righttttttttt As an environmental engineer who's installed several dozen pump and treat plants with PVC pipe then tested samples for a variety of chemical in the effluent I can tel you NO IT DOES NOT. I've had dozens of PVC pipes plants with dioxins, mercury, and phtalates in the influent (e.g. dirty water coming in) but nothing in the effluent (e.g. clean water doing out)......despite having collected the samples from a PVC sample port.
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10/12/2007, 09:32 PM
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10/13/2007, 11:35 PM
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10/15/2007, 09:59 PM
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