Safety and Hot Wire Foam Cutting

Ernest Christley wrote:

Stealth Pilot wrote:


polyurethane foam breaks down into phosgene gas under the heat of a
hotwire. dont hotwire it. use a knife and surform planer, or
sandpaper.


(for gawds sake you guys give the neophytes actual information. tell
them what is released so that they can be wise to the facts, not the
hearsay)
Stealth Pilot


And you think that you've done that? Phosgene gas? Is that the gas that
comes from the jeans of queer guys with a lisp after they fawt.

I took college chemistry, but that means absolutely nothing to me. Big
technical words are not information.

Ignoring your filth I will answer thusly: dictionaries are our friends;

phos•gene (fos‚jŽn, foz‚-) n.a poisonous, colorless, very volatile
liquid or suffocating gas, COCl2, used as a chemical-warfare compound.
[1805–15; Gk phôs light (contr. of pháos) + -gen�s -GEN]


Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired