On Saturday, May 2, 2020 at 6:24:48 PM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote: > > It was meant as a joke. I still use SnPb eutectic solder, and I think my > ~1 kg is a lifetime supply I think I can blame this for my dumbness, since > I used to hold the solder in my teeth during construction and repair. >
I grew up in a time where in elementary school you got to dip your hand up to the wrist in a bottle of mercury, vaporize iodine into a room-filling purple cloud, and play with large chunks of the alkali metals. I once was responsible for inventorying a bulk donation from an industrial laboratory (let's leave them anonymous) to the college I was working at. On opening a metal crate, I had the distinctly unpleasant sensation of ozone forming in my mouth. I shut the box and took off - they had shipped us a Cobalt-60 source in error. More recently, I've ordered and received various electronic components from a seller in the Ukraine. An Elektronika clock was among the items and as you may know, I refurbish these with all new tubes, etc.This clock was absolutely filthy inside with the most bitter dust you could imagine. Not that I was tasting it on purpose, but I didn't realize I needed a full respirator. I asked the seller where these items came from and he replied "a disused industrial premise approx. 150km NNW of Kiev". AKA Chernobyl. this does not reassure me about radiologic inspection of items coming into the US, though to be honest I'm sure the actual radioactivity was low. After all that, I'm not worried about leaded solder. And since people opening and eating products assembled with lead solder seems unlikely, many ROHS -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/3838da94-d816-4459-9c9c-c5437a0b0bb1%40googlegroups.com.
