CHALK contents: Do chalks today contain LEAD?
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Good question PoolChump.
I'm going to get my 3M lead test and check for Pb.
I can't believe I never thought about this. I was using Master Green exclusively
in the 90s (not 90's, by the way).
Again, good question.
This would probably include a fair number of us, including me. Sometimes the snacks at the pool hall are too expensive.
There was a guy on here that got bored while he was waiting to shoot and he liked to lick his chalk to pass time.
Magic Chalk was tested for lead... by me. I didn't want my son handling it if it was dangerous, so I tested it to make sure. Came back negative. I think Renfro is doing even more extensive testing on some different brands of chalk, and can't wait to see the results.....
I don't think anyone would attempt to use lead again, too easy to get caught, as anyone can buy a lead test at Home Depot......plus, just not needed, it's been replaced with higher quality materials that are not dangerous like lead.
There is a reason there are numerous premium brands of chalk out there today...
I don't think anyone would attempt to use lead again, too easy to get caught, as anyone can buy a lead test at Home Depot......plus, just not needed, it's been replaced with higher quality materials that are not dangerous like lead.
There is a reason there are numerous premium brands of chalk out there today...
The question starts out with a lot of misinformation that if they were corrected, then the rest of the question starts to make less sense to even ask.
Master Green and Blue chalk never had lead in them. Only the chalks with lead-based pigments had lead. Those would be Yellow and Red chalks. Green and Blue pigments for Masters didn't have Yellow or Red pigment.
The lead-based pigments (yellow and red) switch to non-lead was during the global conscious effort to stop using lead-based pigments in the 70's and 80's.
So, Masters Green and Masters Blue never had lead. The couple of colors that did have lead were switched out in the 70's or 80's.
With that in mind, does the question on lead in Magic Chalk (which might not even be made in Russia) even makes sense?
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showpost.php?p=3852818&postcount=8
Master Green and Blue chalk never had lead in them. Only the chalks with lead-based pigments had lead. Those would be Yellow and Red chalks. Green and Blue pigments for Masters didn't have Yellow or Red pigment.
The lead-based pigments (yellow and red) switch to non-lead was during the global conscious effort to stop using lead-based pigments in the 70's and 80's.
So, Masters Green and Masters Blue never had lead. The couple of colors that did have lead were switched out in the 70's or 80's.
With that in mind, does the question on lead in Magic Chalk (which might not even be made in Russia) even makes sense?
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showpost.php?p=3852818&postcount=8
Being in chalk that you scrape a foot or two from your face is probably a pretty good delivery method to poison people. I believe most of the lead that got into people in the mid 20th century was from inhalation (of air polluted from leaded gasoline), not ingestion.
I smell lawsuit.
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showpost.php?p=2936432&postcount=34
Someone should point out that link from wc.arizona.edu to Skip Nemecek. I'm sure he'd be thrilled that's still rolling around.
Freddie <~~~ done with this nonsense
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Back in the 60's and early 70's we used to add white lead paste to our paint. We mixed a quart of white lead paste to five gallons of paint. One of the issues with lead in the painting industry was on windows. The old style bypass windows would scrape against each other each time they were opened and the dust would collect on the window sill. Young kids would get it on the fingers and you know what kids do, it went straight into their mouths. To add insult to injury the lead is sweet tasting so the kids loved it. It affected more lower income kids than upper income due to the lack of food they got in general. Once it became known that lead was dangerous the paint industry tried unsuccessfully to develop a paint that would neutralize the lead by just painting over it. That never happened because the lead was impossible to neutralize. I'd be very surprised to see lead in chalk unless it came from China, there have been recent incidences of lead found on children's toys imported from China. Lead is mean stuff but we sure played with it a lot when I was a kid!!