Eco-Friendly Paint?

I haven't tried them, but you can get eco-wise paints at

Powdercoating is about as enviro-friendly as you can get. No solvents to flash off, not toxic. Does take some equipment to apply though. There are free, very detailed books are available online for download if you're interested to find out more.

Bit of a contradiction here - think about it. Your making it out of steel - mined from the earth, (I could say ripped from the bowels of Mother Earth, but that would be a bit too nutty even for this group) ) transported huge distances, made in huge energy hungry mills fueled by burning coal, belching pollution, (probably with a poor standard of occupational health and safety)

You then weld it together - a environmentally unfriendly pratice due pollution from welding fumes and UV and RF radiation from the welder. Plus the pollutants from the factory that made the welder, and the rods. Oh, and the coal fired power station that generated the electricity to run your welder. And you will be frightening small cute furry endangered species animals while doing this. And what about the whales and the dolphins that will be effected by the toxic runoff from the whole process?

And your worried about eco-friendly PAINT?????

I suggest you reconsider your destructive plan, and just sit quietly in the corner until these anti-environmental urges pass.

Andrew VK3BFA.

It all is manufactured from parts that came from this Universe, so it's universally friendly. Most paints are made 99.999% from stuff that originally came from our planet earth so they are grandfathered as environmentally and ecologically friendly.

cheers T.Alan

Powder coat instead?

Thank god for Computer Condoms...I got Dew and cigarette ashes all over this one......

Gunner

"A prudent man foresees the difficulties ahead and prepares for them; the simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences."

- Proverbs 22:3

Cadmium plate ?

"Andrew VK3BFA" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com...

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How about linseed oil and yellowcake. It's pretty vibrant, AND you can find the furniture in the dark>

Thats not a bad idea - sort of like painting watch hands with radium. (Pity about the poor bastards who had the job of applying the paint)

Always remember a line from a book - "Suddenly, the lights went out. The only sound was the slithering of the furniture as it re-arranged itself around the room........"

Andrew VK3BFA.

Interesting bit about the dial painters.

There was a high incidence of cancers among the dial painters, largley from the habit of "pointing" their paintbrush with saliva, either by licking or drawing the tip over a wet lip. Some were not affected.

When it was looked into, it apears the incidence of cancers was much much lower among those that stopped at the pub on the way home. Apparently a couple pints of beer was enough to signifigantly decrease the amount of radium that stayed in the system.

If ever there was a good reason to have a beer or two after work....

Got that from a watch collectors magazine, can't vouch for it's accuracy.

Cheers Trevor Jones

Especially the ones who rolled the tip to a finer point on the tip of their tongue.

Gerry :-)} London, Canada