On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, Dave McGuire wrote:
It's true.
The mercury was used to stiffen the brims. Chronic hat wearers
also had problems.
So does anyone have any idea how much lead is present in the vapors
produced by soldering? I know (for our kind of stuff, anyway) the
smoke is mostly flux and crap, but is there much lead in there?
I solder a *lot*, especially lately...I'm wondering if I should be
concerned.
Hmm. Hold on. I will look up the boiling point and vapor pressure of
lead for you, but I would tend to think it would probably not be a
problem.
Peace... Sridhar