What potentially hazardous materials have you come across on these planes that you take a little extra care working around?
- backstory -
I bought a bunch of screws as replacements for ones I've stripped a bit while removing & replacing various panels on my RV-3B. I'm new to this stuff, so for part numbers I found the wing inspection plate fasteners specified in the plans as AN509-8R8.
On receipt, I noticed they were bronze-coloured vs the stainless items they were replacing. I read up on why one would use cad plated steel, and why you'd use cad plated vs stainless: galvanic corrosion prevention, and 125000 psi tensile strength vs 80000 psi. I also read up on Cadmium Poisoning on Wikipedia.
It's probably overboard, but I think I should be careful with the dust if I strip a cad plated screw - I really don't want to breathe that stuff in or ingest it. I've noticed other bronze-colored hardware inside the panel/interior, and I'll be more careful washing my hands after working with that. I'll also minimize buying cad plated hardware as much as I can considering I don't want to bring more of it into circulation / eventually end up as scrap.
I learned this one pretty cheap - a few dollars. I'm curious - what other potentially hazardous materials have you come across on these planes that you take a little extra care working around?
- backstory -
I bought a bunch of screws as replacements for ones I've stripped a bit while removing & replacing various panels on my RV-3B. I'm new to this stuff, so for part numbers I found the wing inspection plate fasteners specified in the plans as AN509-8R8.
On receipt, I noticed they were bronze-coloured vs the stainless items they were replacing. I read up on why one would use cad plated steel, and why you'd use cad plated vs stainless: galvanic corrosion prevention, and 125000 psi tensile strength vs 80000 psi. I also read up on Cadmium Poisoning on Wikipedia.
It's probably overboard, but I think I should be careful with the dust if I strip a cad plated screw - I really don't want to breathe that stuff in or ingest it. I've noticed other bronze-colored hardware inside the panel/interior, and I'll be more careful washing my hands after working with that. I'll also minimize buying cad plated hardware as much as I can considering I don't want to bring more of it into circulation / eventually end up as scrap.
I learned this one pretty cheap - a few dollars. I'm curious - what other potentially hazardous materials have you come across on these planes that you take a little extra care working around?