sandbagger
Master Member
Perhaps this should be a sticky?
This is a warning to anyone out there who wants to weld your cosplay suit and chooses to ignore precautions thinking it will never happen to you. I knew the dangers and took what I thought were adequate precautions by opening up the workshop to the wind. Obviously not enough. My own stupid fault but please take heed, it could have been a lot worse.
Please Google galvanising poisoning. In fact, Google poisoning of any material you are using. Glue, Resin, Fibreglass, Bondo, Rondo, even you foam builders out there heating up your foam with heat guns and soldering irons. LOOK IT UP!
Here's my horror story.
I got a bad hit of galvanising poisoning a while back while welding and oxy-cutting heavy bridge beams in a large workshop. Welding all day with three roller doors open but it wasn't enough. Left work feeling like I had been licking a block of chalk all day and feeling slightly wrong.
Worst night of my life. I felt like I was literally going to die. Pain. So much pain. Cold chills, hot saturate-the-bedsheets sweat, locked joints, aching muscles, felt bruised all over like I had been run over by a truck. Every part of my body was screaming at me, "WTF did you do to me!!??" Spent two hours running the hot water system out of hot water sitting curled up on the shower floor in agony. 9pm first symptoms, 2:30 am passed out.
9am next morning - good as gold like nothing had happened.
I NEVER, EVER want to go through that again.
Perhaps if any of my fellow cosplay builders have experienced any kind of ill effects from materials or processes, you could share here as warning to others?
This is a warning to anyone out there who wants to weld your cosplay suit and chooses to ignore precautions thinking it will never happen to you. I knew the dangers and took what I thought were adequate precautions by opening up the workshop to the wind. Obviously not enough. My own stupid fault but please take heed, it could have been a lot worse.
Please Google galvanising poisoning. In fact, Google poisoning of any material you are using. Glue, Resin, Fibreglass, Bondo, Rondo, even you foam builders out there heating up your foam with heat guns and soldering irons. LOOK IT UP!
Here's my horror story.
I got a bad hit of galvanising poisoning a while back while welding and oxy-cutting heavy bridge beams in a large workshop. Welding all day with three roller doors open but it wasn't enough. Left work feeling like I had been licking a block of chalk all day and feeling slightly wrong.
Worst night of my life. I felt like I was literally going to die. Pain. So much pain. Cold chills, hot saturate-the-bedsheets sweat, locked joints, aching muscles, felt bruised all over like I had been run over by a truck. Every part of my body was screaming at me, "WTF did you do to me!!??" Spent two hours running the hot water system out of hot water sitting curled up on the shower floor in agony. 9pm first symptoms, 2:30 am passed out.
9am next morning - good as gold like nothing had happened.
I NEVER, EVER want to go through that again.
Perhaps if any of my fellow cosplay builders have experienced any kind of ill effects from materials or processes, you could share here as warning to others?
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