Trichloroethylene: An invisible cause of Parkinson’s disease?
I think this is what someone I knew used. He had all kinds of health problems, diabetes, vision issues, heart problems, and he suspected it was from some electronics related chlorinated solvent.<p>It's also in brake cleaner, which I have no idea how anyone tolerates that stuff.<p>I've never in my life been in a situation where I wanted a stronger solvent than acetone, I'm very skeptical most of these harsh cleaning chemicals are actually needed outside specialist industrial uses.<p>There's a lot of chemicals that do basically the same thing with widely varying desire to kill you.  I don't understand why people like the dangerous ones.<p>They say it works better but what does that mean? Saves a few minutes? Gets it cleaner?  Are people seeing failures in the field because of the less toxic alternatives leaving residue?  Does it even matter at all how clean or not some of this stuff is? Is it just gonna get covered in more grease in 5 minutes?