Carb Sticks

Robert,
Of course you are right about being educated and more responsible, however sometimes I wonder.....
If were really better off, maybe we should be more responsible in the manner that we handle and use some hazzardous stuff and not have to regulate so much. Take R-12 for instance, most of the world out there is still using the stuff. Man did we abuse it too, chilling bearings, shafts, and bushings in cardboard boxes. but those that are still using it are still abusing it. Something I used to pay .99 cents a can for is now $50.00 a can. But in Mexico they still buy it in auto parts stores for a little over a couple of dollars a can!!?? The substitutes dont do justice to the original and all because we saw the misuse.
Have we really saved the ozone layer? NOPE
Oh well, it's the middle of the nite here and I have to work all nite and I find myself digressing.
Have a nice nite
Mike

SnoSheriff
I bought a manometer on ebay for 25.00 with mercury... you might keep looking
Mike

 

Mercury use is HUUUUUGE here in Minnesota. The mercury levels in some of the waterways and lakes here is crazy.

Being as you can't drive more then a few miles without hitting a lake, river, pond or creek in this state, they've banned many things that use or contain mercury.

If anyone has some free time (and really cares) here's all 6 pages of the MN state mercury law and reports from 2001-2002.

http://www.moea.state.mn.us/berc/WMA-hg-01.pdf

Notice the mention of mercury manometers on farms, etc.

 

Your definatly right mercury is bad stuff and I wouldnt want it used around any food stuffs that I'm going to be eating.

I guess I should also add that I feel that Guages would be the best for the job at hand... but I got mine cheap enough and as long as I act responsibly with my stick, I will continue to use it.
I still dont like the CarbTune ll
Mike

I had no idea that mercury was such a pollutant in MN!?
and what do they do with it in dairys?

 

R-12 is great stuff, I'm with you there. R134A is just as bad and does half as well. Outcome of that one? Nobody won except the legislator that had a brother-in-law in the business of selling this useless gas (this is said toungue-in-cheek, I apologize to any offended congressmen that may read this but only if it isn't true). On the down side, it will take 20 years for us to realize any improvement in the ozone layer so sit back a spell (and don't forget to slather on your sunscreen). Up side is that the industrial giant that is America saw a problem and, only after much debate and wasted time and money, decided to do something about it (kinda hard to live in a place without that ozone layer, can you say self preservation?). I'm all for progress, even if it is slow. Might not do me any good but if it spares future generations the misery or lessens it, I think we have to try. Heck, we're already seeing the effects of our ignorance in this cruddy, uncharacteristic weather we're experiencing. I remember how nice the changes of season were and how mild the weather used to be. Ruddy global warming is hitting us all and how! Pant, pant, I'm done fussing. Thanks for the thread Hvnbnd, Hess, I enjoy our chats. Don't work too hard.

 

Yeah, it's a really big deal here, especially with fishing as popular it is. The mercury from the water gets into fish and the poison passes from generation to generation...nasty business.

The state is covered in small, family owned farms. The private dairy industry has really dropped off due to large companies but the emu, buffalo and wind farms seem to do quite well. Aside from manometers I'm honestly not sure what other possible appliactions for mercury a farm might have.

It all became a big deal when the U of M and DNR started finding mercury at extremely toxic levels in new born fish back in the late 90's.

 

All these years I've always thought of MN as this totaly pristine place with farms, lots of lakes and Muskee, BIG Lake Trout, and Moose.
and Mosquitoes bigger than cats.
I wonder if the mercury came from mining operations?
In AZ when there is a polution problem in the country it is usually some sort of industry like mining or some sort of industrial plant or something of the sort.
Sorry to hear of that.

 

Most of the tv doco's out here say mining/industial way back.....after removing the propaganda...[its the little guys fault]