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- From: schmidt@auvax1.adelphi.edu
- Subject: RE: Is lead solder bad for me?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.225511.1@auvax1.adelphi.edu>
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- References: ,<1992Nov17.175550.14583@netcom.com> <2b0a35e8.4a6b@grace.cri.nz>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 03:55:11 GMT
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- In article <2b0a35e8.4a6b@grace.cri.nz>, srgxnbs@grace.cri.nz writes:
- >>From: kehoe@netcom.com (Thomas David Kehoe)
- >>Subj: Is lead solder bad for me?
- >>Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:55:50 GMT
- >>
- >>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.
- >>
- (stuff deleted)
- >>
- >>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
- >
- > I had an article a long time ago that claimed a correlation between
- > soldering and asthma (I'm mildly asthmatic and I do react). The
- > article blamed the _flux_ and recommended ventilation, I use a small
- > fan to blow the vapour away, works ok.
-
- Some years ago I had a student here who was going to help out with some wiring.
- It turned out he had a severe asthma attack from the flux fumes whenever he
- tried to do any soldering. I also had someone react badly to the fumes from GC
- contact cleaner, when he spilled a little. This was the liquid stuff which GC
- used to sell in a small bottle. Yes, electronics chemicals can cause problems,
- even to hobbyists. There has been a lot of discussion of these dangers in the
- art world, but but not as much in the electronics hobby world.
-
- Then there was the time someone sat on the soldering iron I was using :-( .
- >
- >>--
- >>"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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