ORIGINAL: damifino
Wilst you guys are chewing the (horse) fat don't forget about the solvents and fuels you (we) use soaking into your skin and settling in the liver. Oh yeah, and breathing those poisonous (great smelling) exhaust fumes. And please, please, refrain from smoking and/or chewing tobacco products while starting and tuning your model aircraft. You could wind up with a nasty infection of a lung tumor with a high risk of it spreading to your liver. This is especially true if you have been picking your nose with a finger impregnated with prop paint chips.
By the way, I use props with tips painted from the factory. Why?
They are visible and just plain look good. Paint or no paint, who "gives a rat's a*s?"
If you didn't, "give a rat's a*s" you wouldn't have posted.
But since you do... we were not discussing fuels, poisons and smoking.
The problem with the poisonous nature of fuel has been discussed in other threads... and there are appropriate suggestions there.
Smoking while tuning the plane is not really related to RC as there is very little chance of setting yourself on fire.
BUT I WANT A STUDY! "not".
The carcinoginic nature of cigarrettes, has already caused warning labels to be mandated.
As far as picking your nose... we'll I can't speak for your own personal hygene as well as you do.
Re: Props painted at the factory?
Don't know why you do that, as the factory paint comes off rather easily. I would think that it makes far more sense to paint them yourself using a plastic Krylon paint as posted...
But you could always suggest that the manufacturer do something better, like... use colored materials instead...
... oh wait, that's how this thread started.
Unless of course you are one of those people who believe that manufacturers always do EVERYTHING right and in your best interests, and we are idiots for suggesting improvements, as some people here seem to believe.
Hmmm... we wouldn't have airbags & seatbelts in cars, fireproof materials in airliners, non-flammable children's halloween costumes, either then.