PTFE or not

Delrin is a trade name of DuPont. I used it years ago, it can give off some nasty fumes that can cause you to go dizzy and lose balance. Don't ask me how I know!

Ian S C

May I ask what your references are for the withdrawal of the use of PTFE on frypans?

Jerry

The Daily Mail? Type PTFE frying pan and google automatically offers "teflon frying pan dangers" with this as one of the results.

"NON- stick frying pans release chemicals linked to liver disease and cancer into ... most dangerous drug of our time' and should come with smoking-style health "

But they say the Mail divides everything in the universe into those that cause cancer and those that cure it (some things are in both categories).

Neil

http://www.anorak.co.uk/288298/scare-stories/the-daily-mails-list-of-things-that-give-you-cancer-from-a-to-z.html/

PTFEs main claim to fame is its ability is its high temperature working. As the smoke point of olive oil is about 200 degs C ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_oil ), heat a egg cupful of olive oil in the work shop until it starts to smoke, and see if your "PTFE" melts of softens .

FWIW Nylon absorbs oil and expands, leave a bit of "plastic" in oil and see if it gets bigger?

Frank

Wow, that's terrible. I'm going back to bed and I'll eat nothing but muesli - oh, without milk

Now, where's that design for a Faraday cage?

Russell.

With the shenanigans of both the NSA and GCHG, we may all need one before long.

Now watch this post ring alarms bells in said spook's HQs or should that e

Geoff - Still no workshop time yet

Can't find the TV program that mentioned the discontinuance of PTFE cook ware, it may have been a recomendation. A number of google sites suggest that your pet bird might get done in by the fumes. Ian S C