The importance of dry air..

[GWD]

I also must warn everyone that welding GALVANIZED pipe or anything galvanized can kill you. I gas welded my pipe and did it with the correct ventilation and wore a proper air mask that filters out poisonous gasses and such. I made sure that I did not breath the fumes from the welding of the galvanized pipe. The burning of the zinc on the pipe coating will give off fumes and those fumes have killed people. So if you don't know what you are doing, don't do it!

There are plans on the internet to build the Franzinator without welding. That may be a better way to go as it is far less dangerous if you can only find galvanized pipe. Black pipe is better but rusts.

Post a link to verify this assumption (in red above).

Metal Fume Fever is what it is called. Can't upload a *.PDF file so here it is in text from the American Welding Society.

Metal Fume Fever.txt

[Steve]

Post a link to verify this assumption (in red above).

Metal Fume Fever is what it is called. Can't upload a *.PDF file so here it is in text from the American Welding Society.

Metal Fume Fever.txt

http://z6.invisionfree.com/ToolBoxTa...?showtopic=249 for those who need to know for sure. I never make assumptions. This guy was running a forge and was burning some galvanized pipe. The fumes got into his lungs and eventually killed him. Franz© is the one who reported the death and there is also a web site honoring the gentleman who passed from breathing the fumes off of galvanized pipe and that site is linked in the previous link given. That was back in 2005.

So be careful if you are doing anything with galvanized. Some dangerous stuff to weld or heat if you don't know what you are doing.

[everlastsupport]

Add light headed and it seemed mine lasted for that 2 days (the headache part). I did have it once, was gas welding a big sheet of galvanized when young. Took off goggle a bit later and there was white power all over place, the floor all around the metals.

It was not comfortable, I did not know about it back then. I made me flu like ill, there was a ton of the white mess all over but it did not kill me.

I am not saying do it, just backing the GWD post from experience. We do light galvanized TIG and MIG now just outside the bay door, just grind around the welds and do not breath it.