I was just thinking, if anyone ever got mercury poisoning from vacuum tubes, it should have been Jimi Hendrix :-)
Or was there no mercury in those old tubes? Michel On Feb 9, 4:04 pm, Terry Kennedy <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
