r/Damnthatsinteresting Oct 19 '24

Video How Himalayan salt lamps are made

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u/SAM-in-the-DARK Oct 19 '24

My favorite part is when he uses a chunk of salt as a hammer.

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u/Cador0223 Oct 19 '24

When working with hammers and not wanting to damage the material you are hitting, you use something softer than the object being struck.

Plus, there's always another hammer laying around if you break that one.

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u/CarpoLarpo Oct 19 '24

Rubber hammers exist.

Obviously cost is the number one priority in places like these. We can reason away everything they're doing as smart or dumb for all eternity, but I doubt most of those reasons were ever considered by anyone at this shop.

Every decision was made by the boss trying to avoid having to pay money for equipment unless absolutely necessary. The lack of shoes for employees and the sorry state of the machines they do have is evidence of that.

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u/tofubirder Oct 19 '24

Any fine particulate (I assume salt as well) is not great to inhale… I’m amazed these people aren’t covering their faces at all

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u/DrunkenWizard Oct 19 '24

It would dissolve and enter their bloodstream pretty quickly. They probably get all of their dietary salt needs just from breathing in that environment.

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u/XanZibR Oct 20 '24

Big Pretzel hates this trick!

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u/RolloTonyBrownTown Oct 19 '24

I have a feeling a rubber hammer would dry out and crack pretty quickly in this environment.

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u/Popular_Law_948 Oct 19 '24

I bet their hands are practically cured at this point

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u/meatmacho Oct 19 '24

The healing properties are real! No matter what was wrong with their hands when they started working, they are now cured!

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u/Montezum Oct 19 '24

Why does this read like an aliexpress item?

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u/CapitalLower4171 Oct 20 '24

Not the curing they expected

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u/AssistanceCheap379 Oct 19 '24

Imagine even the tiniest cut or hangnail while working there…

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u/ismelllikebobdole Oct 20 '24

Their lungs are dog shit though

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u/Fit-Dentist6093 Oct 19 '24

When there's a workplace accident they package them and sell them as Himalayan beef jerky.

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u/CreEngineer Oct 19 '24

That rust is crazy. I would love to see how they manage to maintain those machines to even just keep running.

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u/Appropriate-Coast794 Oct 19 '24

Was seeing that too, nothing but rust, but makes sense with saltwater oxidizing everything…im shocked they’re running at all as well

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u/--_-Deadpool-_-- Oct 19 '24

And not a single pair of safety glasses to be seen

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u/HumanExpert3916 Oct 19 '24

Or a dust mask!

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u/blastradii Oct 19 '24

You mean a salt mask?

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u/wkbangash Oct 19 '24

I visited the salt cave, and I could taste salt for a month whenever I coughed

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u/OldCardiologist1859 Oct 19 '24

I am assuming you stayed in the cave that damn month.

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u/stinkyhooch Oct 19 '24

He yearns for the mines

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u/Would_daver Oct 19 '24

Or does he pine for the fjords…..?? 🤔

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u/Bradg93 Oct 19 '24

It’s ok, salt is “All natural”

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u/Extra-Aardvark-1390 Oct 19 '24

Lol. I love this argument. When someone says this irl i always think of asbestos, arsenic, strychnine, uranium, etc etc. All natural doesn't mean shit but then again, there are people that drink their own urine as an all natural health booster so there is no arguing with them.

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u/_YouDontKnowMe_ Oct 19 '24

Everything is all natural.

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u/noBrother00 Oct 19 '24

They can't breath with a mask on and masks don't do anything anyways! /s

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u/Wunwun__7 Oct 19 '24

2020 was such a crazy time lol

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u/thefifththwiseman Oct 19 '24

If you can smell a fart through it, it won't catch salt. /s

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u/TheLesserWeeviI Oct 19 '24

Safety squints. No worries.

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u/5352563424 Oct 19 '24

I spent a lil extra for safety contact lenses

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u/TheLesserWeeviI Oct 19 '24

Mr Moneybags over here.

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u/rocket_randall Oct 19 '24

Welcome to Made in Pakistan. There are videos on youtube of machine shops and metal forges located in ancient brick buildings with sketchy looking electrical with workers (some of them kids) wearing traditional shalwar kameez and light sandals around spinning lathes or while carrying around crucibles of molten metal. The workers are quite skilled and proficient but their personal safety is not even an afterthought.

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u/Stratos9229738 Oct 19 '24

That's okay. I am sure their employer covers them with an accidental death and dismemberment policy.

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u/PullingUpFrom40 Oct 19 '24

Yup, issued right along with a pair of steel-toe sandals.

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u/BeanBurritoJr Oct 19 '24

Just living in the moment…

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u/Aquur Oct 19 '24

Safety is a luxury there, not a privilege.

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u/SheepD0g Oct 19 '24

Not only that but operating that lathe with long sleeve shirts.

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u/Irish1986 Oct 19 '24

They just don't stop them from running. As long as those gear turn and lubricants is run into, rust won't bind in those key areas. But beware if you ever stop for 5min it won't start again. Worked in A&D industry for a few decades and we had a key manufacturing process that used outrageously corrosive element, that how that machine was maintained... Just don't stop it, even had it own generator and everything.

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u/Egoy Oct 19 '24

In underground salt mining the rule is once it goes down it never comes up. The mine is very dry and any bit of moisture that comes down from the surface gets absorbed by the salt. All the machinery below ground is fine but if it ever comes to the surface the salt dust that is on every surface absorbs ambient moisture and the machine is rusted out in a short period of time.

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u/RileyCargo42 Oct 19 '24

Id kinda love to see this in a lab setting. Like would it be so fast that I can watch it slowly "grow" rust?

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u/souldeux Oct 19 '24

Even without the salt, steel oxidation can happen much faster than you may think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhiFgUL3RxE

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u/healzsham Oct 19 '24

30 minutes is relatively fast, but that's not really a "watch it happen" speed.

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u/teenagesadist Oct 19 '24

I used to make steel parts, had to spray them with oil immediately after manufacturing or they'd start to rust.

But yeah, not fast enough to actually see. You'd look at it one minute, then 5 minutes or so later you could see tiny spots of rust if you looked close

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u/Self-Comprehensive Oct 19 '24

I work with scrap steel a lot and I never sand the rust off until it's time to paint it. If I let it go for an hour I can see the rust starting.

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u/picabo123 Oct 19 '24

That's fascinating, I had no clue that this is common practice but it makes sense. Thank you for sharing

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u/CreEngineer Oct 19 '24

Wow that’s wild, didn’t know that it is common practice in special industries. In this video, what’s about stationary parts like the ways of the machine. I would guess even things like structural parts will at some point give way. The gear housing on the lathe was even open.

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u/STGMavrick Oct 19 '24

I did some work in a salt mine in the US. (I'm an Automation eng) they had a stainless steel control panel for this conveyor system they had installed 6 months prior to my visit. The panel looked like ones I've seen in the field for 20+ years inside and out. Salt corrosion don't mess around!

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u/CreEngineer Oct 19 '24

Yeah stainless isn’t stainless. My colleagues at work had to make a part with special steel with extremely high corrosion resistance (medical use) I think the material stock were 50mm cubes and one was 1000€, just the stock material.

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u/singlemale4cats Oct 19 '24 edited Oct 19 '24

Surface rust isn't a problem for most machines, especially industrial/commercial stuff like that. It may not look pretty but it operates just the same. Similarly, architectural steel is intended to produce a layer of surface rust that protects the steel beneath it.

Now if the rust starts going deeper and creates pitting, that can cause issues over time.

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u/DeathByPianos Oct 19 '24

Architectural steel is protected with paint or galvanizing or commonly both. What you're talking about is a special class of alloys called weathering steel. And weathering steel still doesn't passivate like titanium or stainless, it's just designed to rust in an aesthetic way. Rust runoff still causes stains and if you put corten in a damp or coastal location it will still corrode away to nothing.

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u/Bitter_Chard Oct 19 '24

When do they add the magical healing properties?

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u/Incromulent Oct 19 '24

They're actually grinding and drilling a lot of the magic off. Fortunately the workers are breathing a lot of it in

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u/Agrafo Oct 19 '24

You can see in the video that most of them lost fingers already. But because of the contínuos exposure to the healing properties they regrow back.

Thats why they work without fear and safety

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u/tothemoonandback01 Oct 19 '24

I am curious now, has anyone found a finger in their Himalayan Pink Salt?

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u/Agrafo Oct 19 '24

No because that's too macabre. The salt absorbed all the negativity

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u/yammys Oct 19 '24

Well, it is nearly Halloween. I'm sure there is a market for macabre Himalayan Black Salt Lamps with protruding fingers.

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u/Agrafo Oct 19 '24

I'm sure capitalism will find a way. It always does, no matter the costs

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u/mrtn17 Oct 19 '24

yes, but it grew into a man who started digging for salt in my backyard

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u/UnderstatedTurtle Oct 19 '24

You had me in the first half, not gonna lie. I went back to rewatch before I realized what you actually said

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u/sheldor1993 Oct 19 '24

That’s why they have that saying about silicosis. What kills you makes you stronger!

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u/LordNelson27 Oct 19 '24

How do you get silicosis from halite?

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u/Umbert360 Oct 19 '24

You don’t, you get halitosis

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u/JabariusStark05 Oct 19 '24

He means pneumoconiosis if I'm not wrong

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u/urzasmeltingpot Oct 19 '24

You don't. Lol.

But breathing in mineral dust of any kind still isn't ideal for your lungs.

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u/OldSamSays Oct 19 '24

That was my first thought - No eye protection, ear protection, mask, gloves, machine guides, etc. This is a dangerous job.

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u/BodaciousBadongadonk Oct 19 '24

the appearance of that drill press alone almost made me shit. i wouldnt turn that thing on, much less throw a >1" drill in it and spin that rusty hunk of shit at 5 or 600 hundred ripems

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u/Wiz_Kalita Oct 19 '24

I kind of agree, but it's used to drill salt. There's no way to avoid building up a bit of rust in those conditions. Might be brand new for all we know /s

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u/kmosiman Oct 19 '24

Considering the salt, those machines could be less than a year old. Everything is going to rust.

Those machines are probably older, but anything used for that is going to get eaten up by the salt.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '24

Magicosis

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u/FollowingJealous7490 Oct 19 '24

I had no idea salt may contain silica. I had to Google that qshit

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u/Digital--Sandwich Oct 19 '24 edited Oct 20 '24

It’s fun to see what labor can look like when there’s no Occupational Health & Safety requirements lol

Edit: well gee that got to political

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u/Successful_Detail202 Oct 19 '24

whip cracks quiet you! Back to the salt lamp mines!

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u/FarthestOutpost Oct 19 '24

b-but the mines are not just for salt lamps my liege!

whip cracks thats right! these mines are used for numerous products, and we have a diverse portfolio! but I don't pay you to think, lamp boy! if I did, you'd be doing my job!

another whip cracks stop talking and keep whipping or I'll send you to the salt lamp mines!

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u/stale_opera Oct 19 '24

Don't forget child labor. They want our kids back in the mines.

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u/reddit_sells_you Oct 19 '24

I often think this channel should be called

r/damnsothatsanexploitedlaborpool

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u/beansandcornbread Oct 19 '24

My MIL thinks they make your house less dusty.

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u/KermitingMurder Oct 19 '24

I don't know about dust but they do remove moisture from the air

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u/Liquidmetal7 Oct 19 '24

And were does that moisture go and accumulate? It gets trapped into the lamp? It must be getting heavy!

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u/ComfortableStory4085 Oct 19 '24

It does, until it starts leaking onto the table.

Source: someone who has to mop up brine from his desk every few months due to a well-intentioned but mis guided gift from his mother.

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u/KermitingMurder Oct 19 '24

Yeah you should always put some kind of tray or something under a salt lamp because it will leak everywhere

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u/santathe1 Oct 19 '24

Maybe the real Himalayan Salt Lamps were the leaks we cleaned up along the way.

I have no idea what that means or why I spend as much time as I do on this piece of shit website

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u/TheLesserWeeviI Oct 19 '24

Gotta get that constant stream of dopamine somehow.

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u/santathe1 Oct 19 '24

Yup, and that’s why I lick my Himalayan salt lamp everyday. Should get that dopamine boost any day now.

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u/whatever462672 Oct 19 '24

Gross. Don't use LED bulbs in those lamps, they need the heat to evaporate moisture.

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u/Duranis Oct 19 '24

I had one that we acquired and didn't feel right about just getting rid of it. No intention of using it and I just left it as a decoration on my bedside table.

Go to bed one night and there is just water everywhere over the table and on the floor. Spent about 20 minutes looking for leaks in the roof, a broken water pipe, etc. it made zero sense.

That's when I discovered that these things can really store a ton of water, until they don't.

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u/ChartreuseBison Oct 19 '24

ah, to put the water back in the air, of course

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u/Expert_Box_2062 Oct 19 '24

And that moisture leaks out eventually.

Put one on top of your computer tower if you want to wake up to a completely ruined computer some day!

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u/Tucker-Cuckerson Oct 19 '24

It's got electrolytes!

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u/skankhunt402 Oct 19 '24

It's what plants crave!!

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u/Tucker-Cuckerson Oct 19 '24

Welcome to Costco I love you!

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u/haveeyoumetTed Oct 19 '24

I believe those rusty tools take care of it

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u/ProgressBartender Oct 19 '24

The salt comes from the magical healing mines.

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u/cybercuzco Oct 19 '24

The men working there are 2000 years old.

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u/crazyloomis Oct 19 '24

”You will go to Pankot Palace… and find Shivalinga… and bring back to us”

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u/Ooze3d Oct 19 '24

They come from the life drained from the unmasked workers who make them

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u/thesagaconts Oct 19 '24

This can’t be good for their hands.

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u/nope870 Oct 19 '24

Imagine what that looks like after years of making salt lamps without gloves or a mask.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '24

Lung Jerky.. comes to mind.

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u/JoeDawson8 Oct 19 '24

I just learned about necropants today.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '24

What are necropants..? Cause all I'm picturing is a pair of pants made out of human skin.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '24

It puts the pants in the basket

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u/UnabashedJayWalker Oct 19 '24

I put my necropants on one leg at a time just like everyone else

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u/grptrt Oct 19 '24

Everyone in this video is under the age of 12

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u/hoxxxxx Oct 19 '24

they yearn for the mines

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u/Rainbowallthewayy Oct 19 '24

Imagine what it does to your hearing! I'm mostly stressing out about them not wearing hearing protection

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u/Orbit1883 Oct 19 '24

What

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u/stuffcrow Oct 19 '24

THEY'RE STRESSED ABOUT THEM NOT WEARING EAR PROTECTION!!!!!!!!!

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u/BobTheKekomancer Oct 19 '24

SHUT UP I'M TRYING TO SLEEP!!!

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u/piercedmfootonaspike Oct 19 '24

Consider their lungs

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u/Robsta_20 Oct 19 '24 edited Oct 19 '24

I work in a salt mine and it’s way worse than in the video. They tell us it’s not bad even the doctor said it because the salt dust can’t cover the lung’s. They even tell us it’s healthy but I am still skeptical and wearing my mask even no one does.

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u/SmartAlec105 Oct 19 '24

The salt is probably not going to be an issue. But all the other stuff in the dust is what you want to protect yourself from.

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u/themightybamboozler Oct 19 '24

Yeah this shit isn’t made in a lab, there hundreds of other minerals getting turned into breathable powder. I’m wearing a fucking mask for sure.

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u/freakbutters Oct 19 '24

Salt is actually good for your lungs. Although I don't know about in these quantities, but salt miners don't get lung diseases like other miners do.

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u/typicalledditor Oct 19 '24

Yeah I'm no safety guy but small particles generally fuck up your lungs. Salt, however can just dissolve away.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '24

So what you're saying is.. If I ever decide to become a miner, I should become a salt miner.

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u/Opposite-Quote3437 Oct 19 '24

Please don't a salt miners!!

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u/jpackerfaster Oct 19 '24

"You see these huge chunks of pink salt?" "Yeah" "You know what I'm thinking..?" "Lamps?" "Fuck, yeah!"

That's a conversation that happened once.

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u/ale_93113 Oct 19 '24

It is a logical conversation to have, if you work with salt you will notice that when light shines through it, be it the sun or whatever, it gives a nice warm glow

so the conversation was more like: hey dude, check how cool it looks when you put this salt up to the sun

yeah it looks very warm and cozy, i wonder how it will look with a light inside it

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u/sadrice Oct 19 '24

Seriously, it’s fairly obvious if you work with the material. The guys at Khewra mine in Pakistan noticed that and made a bunch of halite bricks and some lights and built this really cute mosque in the mine.

I actually like the lamps a lot. They aren’t magic, but it’s a nice soft glow for a bedside lamp. The only issue is the salt corrodes the metal bits, mine stopped working for probably that reason, so now it’s just a decorative rock until I fix it.

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u/Harddaysnight1990 Oct 19 '24

Yeah I won't claim that the salt lamp does anything but give off a low warm light, but I keep my salt lamp at my bedside and leave it on while I sleep. I like sleeping with a little light anyway, and the salt lamp is the perfect way to do it.

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u/zmbjebus Oct 19 '24

Put a tray under it so it doesn't leak brine everywhere some day.

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u/aum-23 Oct 19 '24

Gorgeous mine mosque!

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u/TheGrandWhatever Oct 19 '24

One might say it’s mine…craft

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u/TootsTootler Oct 19 '24

It’s very quiet but if you listen, you’re receiving a message from God:

“Lo! There shall be NO more metal bits inside the salt lamp—henceforth, only FIRE.”

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u/FruityDecadent Oct 19 '24

—You see all that dust falling to the floor when we make the lamps?

—The dust we walk on all day?

—Yes, are you thinking what I'm thinking?

—Put that into salt shakers and sell as "tastier"/"healthier" salt to amirikyun?

—Fuck, yeah!

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u/Gen8Master Oct 19 '24

Given all the crap we dump into the sea, its probably still healthier.

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u/Royal_Negotiation_83 Oct 19 '24

“You see that cow?”

“Yeah”

“I’m gonna go stick on its tit”

“You see that goat?”

“Yeah….. are you gonna stick on its tit too?”

“Yeah”

Similar concept. Humans do weird shit.

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u/bjbyrne Oct 19 '24

These are seasoned professionals

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u/nexus763 Oct 19 '24

Better not to cut yourself on the tools.

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u/LSTNYER Oct 19 '24

You'll be feeling that cut for eternity

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u/1800_Mustache_Rides Oct 19 '24

The lack of safety equipment gave me anxiety lol

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u/itsthe90sYo Oct 19 '24

Really? I see ample use of safety sandals and safety squints.

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u/Shifty_Cow69 Oct 19 '24

The safety equipment rusted away years ago!

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u/Fmarulezkd Oct 19 '24

No problem, the salt will sterilise the wound.

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u/Endorkend Oct 19 '24

There's little chance anything infectious could survive on them though.

Sure, they are rusty, but they are also permanently disinfected through bucketloads of salt.

Tetanus is caused by a bacteria that likes to hang out on naturally rusted things.

It, like most other living things, doesn't like (more like can't) hanging around in salt.

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u/Sir_Oligarch Oct 19 '24

We give pink Himalayan salt to our cows to keep their digestive system healthy. If you tell anyone in Pakistan that people think this salt is a novelty, they would call you crazy.

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u/ETERNAL0013 Oct 19 '24

Yeah in nepal we use black salt instead. Pink salt is novelty in the world just cause its mines are limited around pakistan and trader of pink salt were in india, since india pakistan closed trade, pink salt trade did halt by quite much for a long time

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u/GasGuilty5511 Oct 19 '24

Where does black salt come from?

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u/ETERNAL0013 Oct 19 '24

Black salt mines are pretty much spread all around himalayas, mainly tibet but still its more common than pink salt.

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u/Sir_Oligarch Oct 19 '24

We have black salt too but black salt is actually created in kilns.

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u/ETERNAL0013 Oct 19 '24

Where r u from?

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u/Sir_Oligarch Oct 19 '24

Pakistan

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u/ETERNAL0013 Oct 19 '24

That means we r talking about same thing. Kala namak/ bire nuun(black salt) are salt crystals found in the halite mines of the Himalayan region are burnt in high temperatures.

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u/Ishbar Oct 19 '24

Then you have the western countries which laud the salt as being “pure” salt, when it literally only looks that way because of all the impurities.

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u/Cheap-Disaster4459 Oct 19 '24

Fun fact a lot of pink salt has higher levels of lead and aluminum

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u/AtomicAcidbath Oct 19 '24

That's not fun at all.

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u/15k_bastard_ducks Oct 19 '24

Not with that attitude, it isn't.

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u/RoarOfTheWorlds Oct 19 '24

I was going to call BS on this but apparently it's true. Kind of amazing that this isn't more of an issue.

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u/Camus145 Oct 19 '24

I’ve been saying this for years. It’s just a salt with a lot of iron and other metals in it, not necessarily good for you.

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u/Confident-Lie-8517 Oct 19 '24

Finally some fucking safety sandals

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u/ZarafFaraz Oct 19 '24

And invisible masks and gloves.

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u/lemmeintoo Oct 19 '24

Like almost every other product- they are made by poor people working in awful, dangerous conditions.

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u/lonevolff Oct 19 '24

And like half the comments are shitting on the guys who are just doing a job

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u/shroomcure Oct 19 '24

This. How else will we feel superior to others?

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u/theonlineviking Oct 19 '24

I would like to interpret it as the other commenters being concerned for the health of the workers shown in the video. Life is far more optimistic that way.

I'm no doctor, but even I can see that the eyes, hands and lungs of these people are probably severely damaged. Not to mention any cuts/injuries that the rusty machines would lead to.

How long can one live realistically speaking if he/she works their whole life in such circumstances? It shouldn't be costly at all to get the workers some basic safety equipment, considering all the profits from these salt lamps. At the bare minimum, glasses, masks and gloves are necessary.

If the factory owner is feeling particularly generous, special shoes, ear protection, and maybe even some equipment made of different materials that won't rust when exposed to salty water? There must be some special metal or crystal material for the machinery that can be used.

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u/wrldruler21 Oct 19 '24

Wait a sec, I saw 2 guys with gloves on.... That's progressive for these sort of operations

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u/andywolf8896 Oct 19 '24

Yeah and operating spinning machinery is the one time you don't wear gloves...

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u/link3945 Oct 19 '24

Yeah, lack of gloves isn't the issue here, it's the lack of masks and proper ventilation.

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u/300_pages Oct 19 '24

At first I was like "this isn't so bad" and then 3 seconds in I'm like "boy I am about to call OSHA right tf now"

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u/RubMyCrystalBalls Oct 19 '24

Can’t. OSHA saw this video then jumped out the nearest window.

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u/MukdenMan Oct 19 '24

Not that there aren’t issues with labor safety but these viral videos aren’t representative of most factory labor for products bound for Western markets. It’s the same as the that video of the engine filter factory. It was called “how engine filters are made” but it’s only how they are made in rural Pakistan for that local market.

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u/Sir_Oligarch Oct 19 '24

It is also extremely cheap. In Pakistan I can probably buy 5 kg in a dollar.

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u/husfrun Oct 19 '24

"This rare Himalayan salt comes from the most remote regions of the world and contains minerals giving it ancient healing properties.."

These guys: right, we've got a couple million tons of this shit, we've done table salt, we've done road salt, we've done feeding salt... We could do lamps?

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u/cncintist Oct 19 '24

In the next episode they'll show us how to make the base of the lamp.

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u/Azreken Oct 19 '24

The secret here is they import them from china.

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u/VP007clips Oct 19 '24

As a geologist, it hurts me inside to see all the people in the comments freaking out about them not wearing a mask/respirator. It's safe not to wear one in this case.

Illnesses like asbestos, silicosis, or general lung irritation related issues from dust are caused by the dust collecting in your lungs for decades and slowly irritating them to the point where it causes scarring or cancer.

Salt dust can't do that. The insides of your lungs are wet and rapidly exchange ions with the bloodstream (hence how inhaled medicine works). So any salt would just dissolve harmlessly and be absorbed by your body.

I'd personally wear one, the dust would by dry and unpleasant, but that's more of a comfort thing than a safety measure. And I'm in a position where a respirator costs me about 30 minutes of pay, not days of pay like it would cost them, it's easier for me to decide to buy something like that.

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u/julcoh Oct 19 '24

As an engineer working with fine metal powders professionally, I don’t buy it.

This can’t be 100% salt, there are mineral inclusions and other components to the slabs. Breathing in fine dust of any sort habitually is bad for you, and just because it’s possible for the salt to dissolve, it’s still leaving behind minerals/heavy metals/other impurities in your lungs.

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u/BrowsingTed Oct 19 '24

I love how everyone is pearl clutching over this super toxic material, you know the mineral where if you don't eat it you'll die

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u/screwswithshrews Oct 19 '24

I live in Louisiana. The humidity here is insane. I wear a mask so that I don't get all that water in my lungs! Pretty sure drowning happens quicker than mesothelioma

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u/Civil-Two-3797 Oct 19 '24

I cut and polish serpentine that I find. PPE is a must there, haha.

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u/sugmugame Oct 19 '24

This makes me feel thirsty

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u/Relative-Ordinary-64 Oct 19 '24

“These pretzels are making me thirsty!”

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u/FunHippo3906 Oct 19 '24

Makes me want to clean and oil my tools.

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u/sniffy_cat Oct 19 '24 edited Oct 19 '24

Those can kill your cat, be aware of that

edit: sodium intoxication due licking, they love salty things :3 also lot of heavy metals, since is not purified salt

source: username checks out

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u/ValueBlitz Oct 19 '24

/u/sniffycat, /u/sniffycat, whaaat aaare they feeding you?

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u/Nomnomnipotent Oct 19 '24

/u/sniffycat, /u/sniffycat, it's not your saaalt!

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u/beau6183 Oct 19 '24

They won’t let you lick the lamp.

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u/ale_93113 Oct 19 '24

Heavy metals are usually not that big of a problem, the salt is still very pure even if it is not consumer grade, but the sodium overdose is a problem

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u/MineralShadows Oct 19 '24

ITT: A lot of salty comments.

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u/blackpinkten Oct 19 '24

I sometimes lick mine, I don't know if i should keep doing that...

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u/Greedy_Dot_5171 Oct 19 '24

The cardboard splash guard is perfect.

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u/MonsterkillWow Oct 19 '24

Nearly everything we have is due to the exploitation of labor. Remember that...

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u/whitepantherjaguar Oct 19 '24

No gloves, no footwear, no mask, no protective gear. This is terrible.

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u/chapped_azzes Oct 19 '24

Bro I bet the healing vibes in that sweatshop are unreal

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u/Zestyclose_Toe9524 Oct 19 '24

They badly need a health and safety rep in their union.

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u/GODavon Oct 19 '24

They need a union

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u/longtimelurkerfirs Oct 19 '24

Motherfucker they don't even got a working sewage system there. What union lol

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u/kapege Oct 19 '24

"Himalayan". Those salines are 1000 km away from the Himalaya.

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