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- From: kehoe@netcom.com (Thomas David Kehoe)
- Subject: Is lead solder bad for me?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.175550.14583@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:55:50 GMT
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- Will I get lead poisoning from breathing the smoke
- from solder? I work next to an open window, and leave
- the soldering iron on the window sill, but when I'm
- doing close soldering work, I can't avoid breathing
- the smoke form the solder.
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- My father got lead poisoning last year when burning
- paint off his house, so I know that lead can vaporize
- in smoke. I think his symptoms were headaches and
- dizziness.
-
- I've switched to lead-free solder, which is 97% tin and
- 3% silver (available at Radio Shack). The label still
- says to avoid breathing the smoke. Why doesn't everyone
- use th
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- "Why my thoughts are my own, when they are in, but when they are out
- they are another's." - Susannah Martin, hanged for witchcraft, 1692.
- Thomas David Kehoe kehoe@netcom.com (408) 354-5926
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