Yes Norm, lots of backyard industries in India (Pakistan too) that are capable of making very good products, because they specialize. But no masks to safeguard against fumes etc. I wonder how many are still alive who worked with rubber manufacture as children back in the 1950s-70s? However I know plenty of old fellas in their 90s who are still fairly active who worked as mechanics with their hands in contact with all sorts of chemicals for decades and they are no better or worse than the ones who worked in offices. Now that I think about it, the more active ones who worked all day up to their necks in chemicals seem to be a lot healthier today than the ones who didn't, so it does make me wonder just how "lethal" some of this stuff really is. My own father lived to be 90 and he did everything but drink the weedicides which came in drums with a big skull and crossbones on the sides. It was nothing to see him stirring these lethal chemicals in the spray drum with his bare arms down as far as his shoulders in the stuff. He wore no protective gear while spraying and regularly kept on the same farm clothes for a week before giving them a basic wash in a washing machine. they came out smelling just as bad as when they went in. So yeah, deadly only to some people it seems. :-)
