The Grand Tour

[pasogrande]

Does anybody follow the Grand Tour, the Amazon Prime continuation of Top Gear, with Clarkson, May and Hammond? In Series 2, Episode 4, I learned a few things about TVR that I wish I hadn't. Their celebrity face-off was between Michael Ball and Alfie Boe.

[v8s4me]

Surely there can't be anything worse than what we already know?

[pasogrande]

Cyanide in the paint?

[KKson]

Yes I watched it. I wonder how much cyanide there is in the paint and if you are sanding the paint what is the risk of airborne contamination??

[hrepo]

Surely they referred to the isocyanates found in the 2 pack paints?
Ie. every car painted with the 2 packs has "cyanide" in the paint.

Their point just was that use of 2 packs requires caution, and preferably to not spray colleagues in the face with the paint.

Or?

[pasogrande]

The program is not to be taken too seriously; the cyanide in paint comments referred to later cars with a metallic finish.

[v8s4me]

pasogrande said:

... the cyanide in paint comments referred to later cars with a metallic finish.

Would that be Sparkling Cyanide?

[mrzigazaga]

Since investing in a laser engraver I have to think as regards to the chrome tanned leather which is 80% of the leather market...My neighbour asked me the other day if I was burning flesh...I said..."Yeah...but its already dead"...still waiting for the local constabulary to call by...

[mike-v2tmf]

pasogrande said:

The program is not to be taken too seriously; the cyanide in paint comments referred to later cars with a metallic finish.

Isocynates are in all 2 pack paints , metallics and solid colours too , its not only dangerous to breathe but also absorbed through the skin

[njhucker]

The gov HSE website has a document on spraying cars with isocyanate (2 pack) paint. It it highly toxic if breathed in while still in the air, as it can cause isocyanate asthma. Air fed breathing apparatus should be used. Skin should be covered as with using any paint. There is no evidence however that it is any more dangerous than getting any other paint on your skin. Presently spraying my Taimar, so have been trying to determine how dangerous it is.

[adam quantrill]

There is no "cyanide" - the poison - in the paint.

An isocyanATE is nothing like an isocyanIDE. And neither is particularly poisonous.

ISOcyanIDE is not the same as cyanide, either.

If TG were speculating that the pain contains cyanide, James May should really know better, as he has a modicum of engineering sense and could look at/understand wikipedia like I just did.

[phillpot]

I think it's called "making a boring story about a short time doing mundane jobs in a car factory a bit more exciting and dramatic"

[hrepo]

adam quantrill said:

There is no "cyanide" - the poison - in the paint.

There is if someone uses prussian blue as the pigment.

But that's kind of beside the point.