20 BANNED Garage Tools Every American Dad Had That OSHA Pulled Off the Market in the 1970s

Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TheLostHandyman?sub_confirmation=1 👉 Start Saving Money By Fixing Everything Yourself Ebook: https://forgottenhandymansecrets.netlify.app/ In 1971, a man in a two-car garage outside Dearborn, Michigan kept a brown glass bottle on the shelf above his workbench. His son thought it was water. It was carbon tetrachloride, and he used it to strip the grease off a bicycle chain in the time it took to wipe his hands. That same year, the federal government was standing up the agencies that would make half of what sat on that shelf disappear. Every American dad had a shelf like that — a row of cans and tools that could clean an engine or take a finger clean off. Here's what he had, and what got pulled. Sources: https://www.epa.gov/history https://www.cpsc.gov/About-CPSC https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/asbestos/