As I understood it, the health concerns around our use micro-fine Teflon were not related to burning it, but rather inhaling it. The danger with any extremely fine particles, measured in microns, is that they are easily inhaled deeply into the alveoli. These are the tiny spheres in the lungs where gas exchange takes place. It is difficult for the body to expel anything that gets stuck down there. The long term effects of that are ???? Teflon itself may be inert at the temperatures we are talking about, but I still wouldn't want to inhale it or anything else of a similar particle size. Perhaps taking precautions when working with some of the materials we commonly use is more appropriate than a cavalier attitude? Jurgen Goering Piano Forte Supply (250) 754-2440 info at pianofortesupply.com http://www.pianofortesupply.com On Feb 22, 2007, at 15:14, pianotech-request at ptg.org wrote: > Teflon is toxic if you heat it up (700 degrees or so) and has been > presented as a danger in Teflon coated pans. Fortunately, my wife > doesn’t heat anything in a pan to half that temperature so we feel > safe and have the obvious longevity to prove it. It’s like a lot of > the other “terrible things that can happen” if you take something to > an extreme lots of bad things happen. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 1440 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070222/7a185616/attachment.bin
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