Hmm, you mean I shouldn't be holding the solder between my teeth when
I can't find my "Helping Hands" and using my mouth to position it while
inhaling the fumes off the board as if they were air?

-----Original Message-----
From: Lawrence Lile [mailto:llile@SALTONUSA.COM]
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 1:14 PM
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: [EE]: Lead poisoning


I wonder what the lead levels in an average electronics engineer's liver
is?

Earlier this century we were throwing lead around like it was candy,
making water pipes out of it, spewing it into the air, making paint out =
of
it, lining tin food cans with it, and so on.  When we started seeing =
lead
poisoning in young children people started to wake up and smell the
tetraethyl lead.  If I am not mistaken, lead poisoning is one of those
things that sneaks up on a person.  Like other metals poisoning, the
person seems fine as they slowly increase levels to a threshold
and then suddenly become symptomatic at some level.

All this soldering and solder fumes must be adding lead to our systems.  =
I
wonder how much?  Does anyone else wash their hands after soldering,
before eating?  How many of us use fans to get the solder smoke out of =
our
face, how many just breathe it all day?  Ever find a solder ball in the
bottom of your coffee cup as you took the last sip?  Nice acidic coffee,
good at leaching metals out of things.....




-- Lawrence Lile
Senior Project Engineer
Toastmaster, Inc.
Division of Salton, Inc.
573-446-5661 voice
573-446-5676 fax

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