Just read about this the other day and I still don’t understand
1. what hydraulic fluid exactly is and what it’s for
2. why it can be so dangerous when you mess with it
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It’s a fluid optimized to have low viscosity, low freezing point, high boiling point, and some lubricant properties.
Translated into chemistry, you make it with cancerous stuff plus acid plus some poison plus some toxic thing covered in irritant stuff.
It will give you cancer and burn your skin and poison you and intoxicate you. This are the hazards, then it doesn’t happen that quick, you have to wash it away and you’ll be fine but never play around with it.
In a system, it is generally found at temperatures that may burn your skin, and at pressure that may spray the thing fast enough to actually make holes into you. That quite scary, don’t play with hyd systems if you don’t know what you are doing.
It’s rare to get injured, but the hazards are numerous and you need to play safe, that’s why they strap so many warnings on those things.
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