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  1. Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!auvm!MAILBOX.UQ.OZ.AU!T.DUNN
  3. Message-ID: <WOODWORK%92122922085003@IPFWVM.BITNET>
  4. Newsgroups: rec.woodworking
  5. Date:         Wed, 30 Dec 1992 13:00:15 +1000
  6. Sender:       Woodworking Discussions <WOODWORK@IPFWVM.BITNET>
  7. From:         T.DUNN@MAILBOX.UQ.OZ.AU
  8. Subject:      Re: coloured stains for kids blocks
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  10.  
  11. >How about analine(sp?) dyes?  Anyone every use them on pine?  Safety?
  12. >Suppliers?  I have a scroll saw puzzle book that has some color
  13. >pictures of wood dyed with this stuff and the colors are amazingly
  14. >vibrant.  Don't know much about them tho.
  15. >
  16. >Ken
  17.  
  18. I just quit from the net (I've resigned!) but I thought I should let you
  19. know about aniline dyes.  I did my doctorate  on bladder cancer, some of
  20. the first substances officially recognised as "cancer causing" (c. 1900)
  21. were the so called "coal-tar" dyes, to which the aniline dyes belong (this
  22. is assuming that the stuff  you buy is actually "aniline").
  23.  
  24. I would highly recommend that you keep this stuff away from kid's toys!  I
  25. don't know of alternatives, but from a toxicology point of view, plastic
  26. (or polyurethane) finishes are infinitely safer.
  27.  
  28. P.S. if you feel like it, can you post this for me?
  29.   *****************************************************************
  30.   * Tim Dunn                       Centre of Molecular Biology      *
  31.   *                                 University of Queensland         *
  32.   * email:                             St Lucia,                             *
  33.   * t.dunn@mailbox.uq.oz.au         Brisbane, Australia 4072             *
  34.   *****************************************************************
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