Thread: Balsa and Chrome Ox

You can do a search for "Chromium Oxide SDS" and get the toxicology info on it. SDS is the new MSDS's. Cr2O3 is the formula if that helps.

but here is a link to a MSDS

http://www.sciencelab.com/msds.php?msdsId=9923471

Originally Posted by Utopian

I was being lazy in not including the full name, but the pigment lead oxide is toxic and it is not something I want on my skin, on my strops, aerosolized into my lungs, or basically anywhere in my house.

Then again, I have not yet completed that Farraday cage for my bed yet either!

There relatively simple actually. Here's how to build your own Faraday Cage.

Just an FYI (in regards to using 'Lead' to rub on a strop) for those that are interested, here is a thread I started some time ago. It has a ton of good info in it...especially some great historical information. I have been using this (lead) to rub on a linen strop as a 'paste if you will' ( but it's not really a paste) for over a year and the smoothness of the my shaves has convinced me to continue to do so.

Here is the thread: http://straightrazorpalace.com/strop...-pictures.html

YMMV and IMOO!

Yeah, PbO is poisonous, but not quickly. I think they used it in 18th century for makeup when it was rather fashionable to be white/pale because it indicated you're really an aristocrat who doesn't have to work for his food and instead has (owns?) dark skinned people who provide for him.

Then again if you don't live in a faraday cage those EM waves may kill you way before the leftover PbO on your razor, so we really need to start measuring...

As an undergrad I was warned about handling acrylamide. First I was warned that it was carcinogenic but not to worry about that because as a nerve toxin it would kill me long before I got cancer!

Note to self use rubber gloves while using Chrome Ox!

So, now I have chromox on my balsa hone.

Do I wipe the excess off before I use it?

Or, does it come off on the blade and you have to clean it off?

Both. Wipe as much as possible off with clean dry paper towels till there is no residue coming off anymore.

Then after that after stropping ur razor just carefully wipe off the blade with a damp cloth or paper towel just in case there is any residue on the blade.

Originally Posted by rlmnshvstr8

Both. Wipe as much as possible off with clean dry paper towels till there is no residue coming off anymore.

Then after that after stropping ur razor just carefully wipe off the blade with a damp cloth or paper towel just in case there is any residue on the blade.

Thanks a bunch