On Feb 8, 10:31 pm, Cobra007 <[email protected]> wrote: > Very interesting. > > They used to use bucket loads of mercury for gold mining, I can > imagine that being over the legal limit, but a few vacuum tubes? > > If you still use PbSn based solder, can you sue the seller for lead > poisoning?
When I was a kid in elementary school, each year the science teacher would pull out the jar of mercury and pour it into a shallow pan, and we'd all run our fingers through it and marvel at how something so heavy could be a liquid. When a friend worked stocking shelves in a supermarket, he was told that intact fluorescent lamps had to be treated as hazardous due to the mercury content, but that broken ones could simply be disposed of. He was "encouraged" by management to put the burned-out lamps in the trash compactor so they didn't have to pay to have them recycled. The municipal water line to my house was a lead pipe from when the house was built until 2007 (when it broke). The city wouldn't offer anything toward replacement as "it wasn't dangerous". Makes you wonder how any of us survived to adulthood... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB.
