Quote Originally Posted by goamules View Post
Yep, when I pour bleach in the laundry room, I'm careful with my eyes too. Or checking the specific gravity of car batteries. Or spraying Lysol or ant killer...or ....

If people don't know not to splash silver nitrate in their eyes, well, I guess they should read up more on doing wetplate before finding a large format forum, discovering a wetplate section, and asking an open ended question about safety. Everybody knows that. Don't touch the flame of an alcohol lamp if you use that for drying varnished plates either.

These hand wringing posts show up from time to time about wetplate. Usually from Europeans for some reason.
Quote Originally Posted by Ari View Post
I'd have just gone with "ignore and move on" and not some gratuitous attack on someone's nationality.
Casting the first stone and such.
What Ari said. Please don't go there.

And: honest questions about health risks are always appropriate and should never be treated with disdain. If it's all obvious to you and you don't have the patience to answer constructively, then leave it be and let others who are willing to be helpful have the floor.