Perhaps you recall My Date With A Stripper.
I recently learned that methylene chloride, aka dichloromethane, CH2Cl2, is being phased out. In California at least. I learned this at my local Home Depot and Lowe's, looking for some of the good paint stripper. I found a single gallon of the good stuff -- the kind with methylene chloride -- but the clerk wouldn't sell it to me. His register came up with a "DO NOT SELL" when he scanned the SKU.
I went home and googled up the news that the EPA just banned it in March. Stores are in the midst of ridding it from their shelves. Next I thought "what could possibly replace it?" A review of strippers in Chemical & Engineering News confirmed my suspicion. Replacement products do not work as well.
I won't argue with the reasons for the ban -- a great many useful chemicals have been banned for good and bad reasons. But there just isn't a replacement at hand. The EPA recommends upping the grit on your abrasion.
Luckily, I found a pint left at my local ACE hardware and it was marked down!
ACE Is The Place!
5 comments:
If it doesn't have methylene chloride it isn't a strip show, just a strip tease.
I've never liked stripping paint, or even spraying paint, so you can imagine how much money I didn't make as a painter. When I did strip something at home I'd use a heat gun but the fumes generated by that process probably rivals a meth mess.
Whew. I thought they closed titty bars.
Get the hell out before they build a wall to keep you there. Soon the whiskey will be homeopathic strength. 50% of the industrial real estate market in Vegas is from California companies moving out. Who is gonna pay the bills when all the taxpayers are gone?
The strippers I know of still have a high percentage of methamphetamine. Is that the good kind?
I love my wife too much to leave, bags.
Is still really terrible for self employment in CA? I mean micro business? Asking for a friend.
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