[TechAssist] Re: Lead Poisoning (solder) - Concern for us techs??
- From: Al Gutz <alg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 20:37:46 -0500
Are we not lucky that we now have governments to pass silly regulations
to protect us from all this nasty stuff that didn't kill off people in
the old days but now it's very dangerous.
Al G
Hoyt's TV wrote:
> Don't laugh, I have actually touched asbestos and lived to tell about it.
> We did that a lot in high school physics class. We put a piece of asbestos
> on top of the Bunsen burners so the flame wouldn't break the beakers, using
> only our bare fingers. I even rubbed mercury onto a copper penny to make it
> look like a dime, using nothing but my bare fingers. When somebody dropped a
> mercury thermometer and broke it, we didn't run out of the school screaming.
> No sir, we ran toward the spot to collect the mercury for fun things, like
> the afore mentioned penny rubbing.
>
> Now I know why I decided to become a TV repairman ----- brain damage.
>
>
> Russ Hoyt
> Hoyt's TV
> Exeter, NH
>
>
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> Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Lead Poisoning (solder) - Concern for us techs??
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>>hahahah
>>----- Original Message -----
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>>Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2005 1:14 PM
>>Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Lead Poisoning (solder) - Concern for us techs??
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>>>I just don't stick my nose right over it and take deep breath.
>>>Sometimes I blow on it if it's heading for my nose.
>>>
>>>Russ Hoyt
>>>Hoyt's TV
>>>Exeter, NH
>>>
>>>
>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "Leonard Caillouet" <lcaillo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2005 8:47 AM
>>>Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Lead Poisoning (solder) - Concern for us
>>>techs??
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>I have been soldering for 30 years and have been tested for lead several
>>>>times and always the test was negative. I think the smoke from the
>>>>resin and contaminants is more of a hazard. Ditto John, I just use a
>>>>small fan. Probaly should have an extractor but never have.
>
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