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A public service announcement for your home (in case you have visitors from California):

You may know that California now requires warnings on all sorts of products (paint, etc.).

So, we are now swapping out our guest bathroom toilet, and found this warning inside! Evidently, porcelain is considered hazardous to our friends to the south.
Cancer? Reproductive harm? Huh?
I guess one needs to be careful where one sits (if you're from California). Kohler cooties.

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It reminds me of the time a patient asked his doctor if he could get an STD in a bathroom. The doctor thought and said yes, but it may be a little awkward.
 
And today I bought a 10' stick of galvanized flashing... and it had the same warning on it!

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As I posted in another Thread, I bought a small pack of wood screws with a similar waring (from the state of CA of course).
 
Does galvanized metal off-gas (even a little) or would one be ill-advised to lick it? Or was it the packaging of the screws?
 
Boink said:
Does galvanized metal off-gas (even a little) or would one be ill-advised to lick it? Or was it the packaging of the screws?
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No idea. One thing is for sure - I'm not concerned even a little bit.
 
Me either. Seems silly... but am now wondering if these are required on everything, and then one is supposed to go to a website to look up the items.
Crazy.
 
Boink said:
A public service announcement for your home (in case you have visitors from California):

You may know that California now requires warnings on all sorts of products (paint, etc.).

So, we are now swapping out our guest bathroom toilet, and found this warning inside! Evidently, porcelain is considered hazardous to our friends to the south.
Cancer? Reproductive harm? Huh?
I guess one needs to be careful where one sits (if you're from California). Kohler cooties.

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Moral - don't lick the toilet seat. :pukeface:
 
Only if you weld on it or burn it with a torch!

Boink said:
Does galvanized metal off-gas (even a little) or would one be ill-advised to lick it? Or was it the packaging of the screws?
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Propane tanks now have a safety feature to prevent gas from shooting out when the hose is disconnected. Trouble is half the time, you can't get the unit lit because the gas isn't flowing - the valve is probably stuck. Plus around here, you can only exchange tanks each time and we had to dispose of our own tanks because they were over 5 years old. Similar to the gas cans of today with their "safety" feature.
 
I took the bottles for my torch in to be refilled a few years back and they made me exchange them. I had always just refilled them but now they get exchanged.
 
Speaking of stupid warnings, here's a great one:

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1. Wash inside out √
2. Remove Child √

Step #2 is especially important :rolleye:
 
"Remove child before washing" begs the question; are we to wash the kid simultaneously yet separately then?
 
Usually they do that because the testing date is about to run out or is already out. The cylinders have to be pressure tested in a predetermined period of time. When I worked for Air Reduction Company, we dropped a cylinder into a high pressure tank, filled the tank and cylinder with water, pumped 4000 lbs of water pressure into the cylinder and checked the cylinder for expansion, there's a maximum expansion allowed.

waltesefalcon said:
I took the bottles for my torch in to be refilled a few years back and they made me exchange them. I had always just refilled them but now they get exchanged.
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Wait we're supposed to remove the kid before washing? How are we supposed to wash our kids then?
 
pdplot said:
Propane tanks now have a safety feature to prevent gas from shooting out when the hose is disconnected. Trouble is half the time, you can't get the unit lit because the gas isn't flowing - the valve is probably stuck. Plus around here, you can only exchange tanks each time and we had to dispose of our own tanks because they were over 5 years old. Similar to the gas cans of today with their "safety" feature.
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The last time that happened to me, it was because I didn't have connection tight enough.

IIRC, New DOT propane tanks have to be certified after 10 years; after that, it's every 5 years. When the 10 year on my tank was up, I exchanged it and let the exchange company worry about it. I then would refill the exchanged tank until its time was up and do another exchange; repeat.
 
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