Northrop Grumman's F/A-XX Contender?

[Avicula]

Otherwise known in Australian aviation circles as "Green Death"..MEK is just as bad.

That’s a fact. Every HazMat qualification and certification never had to sit through in 20+ years as a firefighter, we always joked (?) about the MEK “Rule of Thumb”: If you couldn’t cover the ENTIRE scene with your thumb on an outstretched hand, you weren’t far enough away and needed to fall back until you could. That stuff is nasty.

[Zaphod58]

That’s a fact. Every HazMat qualification and certification never had to sit through in 20+ years as a firefighter, we always joked (?) about the MEK “Rule of Thumb”: If you couldn’t cover the ENTIRE scene with your thumb on an outstretched hand, you weren’t far enough away and needed to fall back until you could. That stuff is nasty.

Many years ago I worked on explosives detectors at the airport. To clean some of their internal systems you have to use really pure alcohol to run through it. The company that manufactured them would go back and forth between it having to be done while the detector was really hot, which lead to serious burn off and everyone getting high as hell, and it being done with the detector cold, leading to everyone getting high as hell, but slower. Naturally, the only thing that could be used was MEK or acetone.

[Blackfingers]

Off memory MEK builds up in your kidneys.Very nasty stuff.Not fun when someone puts in on your work stool either :-P

[Zaphod58]

Off memory MEK builds up in your kidneys.Very nasty stuff.Not fun when someone puts in on your work stool either :-P

Kidney, brain, lungs, etc. The warnings took up the entire side of a can minus room to crimp the top and bottom of it.

[Blackfingers]

Planes are so much fun....
Anyone still got that 90,s Pdf?

[Avicula]

Off memory MEK builds up in your kidneys.Very nasty stuff.Not fun when someone puts in on your work stool either :-P

Someone did that to you? On purpose?? NOPE.

 I’m a pretty easy going sort, but anyone who had purposely done ANYTHING like that as a prank, or for whatever reason they could possibly have, would be toting a sound beating before the end of the workday. Shift ends at 0800, we’d be having a very intense interaction at 0801 out back. There are just some things you don’t DO with stuff like MEK.

[Blackfingers]

Someone did that to you? On purpose?? NOPE.

 I’m a pretty easy going sort, but anyone who had purposely done ANYTHING like that as a prank, or for whatever reason they could possibly have, would be toting a sound beating before the end of the workday. Shift ends at 0800, we’d be having a very intense interaction at 0801 out back. There are just some things you don’t DO with stuff like MEK.

When your a lowly apprentice at 16 years old your an easy target.That was back in the late 80,s though.

[Zaphod58]

Someone did that to you? On purpose?? NOPE.

 I’m a pretty easy going sort, but anyone who had purposely done ANYTHING like that as a prank, or for whatever reason they could possibly have, would be toting a sound beating before the end of the workday. Shift ends at 0800, we’d be having a very intense interaction at 0801 out back. There are just some things you don’t DO with stuff like MEK.

Like run it through a hot detector bottle in an enclosed area with AC that connects multiple offices. 

[Avicula]

Like run it through a hot detector bottle in an enclosed area with AC that connects multiple offices. 

 
That would be one SUPERB example, yes!!! How are you guys still drawing breath?!? 

[Blackfingers]

Caffein, sarcasm and bad decisions in life ;)