Thanks for answering, and congratulations on your book's anniversary.
My job gives out copies of your book as a somewhat prestigious award to those who find and report security problems, and I'm very happy to have both received and read a copy.
I still don't think it would work well for your purposes - borosilicate just doesn't mark well, and you'd need to start with an accurate 3D model of the object - but I hope you enjoy the video!
(And thanks for writing the book!)
So...label maker.
How thick is the rubber you use for sandblasting? Could it be laser cut to reduce the pain of making the mask? It sounds like you've exhausted all workable options but my curiosity is piqued.
Also, why not use glass that's easier to etch?
Seriously, don’t mess around with this shit - even IF you notice exposure (hard, because you may not even notice until it’s too late) there’s a good chance it’s already a done deal.
I'm not an expert in either chemistry or medicine but what I gathered was:
The medical team needs to try and offset what the fluor is doing to the balance of ions in your body, to keep your cells alive. HF will diffuse within pretty much all of your tissues (including diffusing into bone like it was a sponge iirc) and a medical team will check your blood ion levels every five minutes or so while sticking you with CaCl (iirc) injections along the path the HF may diffuse through your body (if you're lucky enough to have hit an extremety like a hand). While the HF is diffusing, you will not feel anything. They cannot just pump you full of the proper ions to counteract the effects of the fluor and maybe bind it because that would kill you as well, they have to hit the right elevated concentration locally to offset what the fluor is doing.
Edit: I've read up on it again and some of the things I wrote aren't right and I misremembered, like HF exposure being painless. At first it may be so but once the calcium levels drop, exposure is connected to extreme, "deep" pain. Treatment guides stress to not admister aneasthetics because the pain is the best indicator for successful treatment. Also, Calcium Gluconate is recommended, not Calcium Chloride.
This [0] is a detailed source I found (PDF).
They're used at a local University for disposing of cattle remains from the veterinary school... takes several hours, but then the waste liquid is diluted and sent down the drain.
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2004/03/03/th...
> the only times I even use the solution forms of the reagent are on a very small scale and in weakened form
E.g. "As a case example, one worker (case 1) splashed his left leg while transferring a cleaning solution of HF and sulfuric acid between containers. He did not irrigate the area and continued to work for approximately 1.5 hours with soaked pants and shoe until he developed an uncomfortable burning sensation" ...
To reliably etch glass, you need concentrations of 10% or preferably more, at which point you really want a PVC apron, a face shield and a heavy-duty fume hood to work with it, to avoid the sort of exposure in [1].
[1] https://www.uvm.edu/cosmolab/safety_manuals/Fatality%20due%2...
I'm going with "things I won't work with", Alex.
The only tricky part of working with it is getting clean edges with a stencil.