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Maybe you're so used to the safety warnings that you always skip them when you encounter them? Here, extracted just for you: > Compare that to the leaded versi
by lolc 7y ago
Maybe you're so used to the safety warnings that you always skip them when you encounter them? Here, extracted just for you:
> Compare that to the leaded version with the same rosin formulation. This also creates fumes that are not great to breathe (the same fumes), plus a bunch of really bad stuff because of the lead:
> [Long list of bad stuff]
> I think most of this speaks for itself, but I’d like to point out a subtle upgrade from P261 to P260 for the leaded stuff. It goes from “avoid” to “don’t” and I think this this is worth calling out specifically. Remember leaded paint? The stuff we banned in ‘78? The primary cause of lead-poisoning isn’t eating paint chips, it is breathing lead laced paint dust. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/lead-poisoning/symptoms-causes/syc-20354717 https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/lead-poisonin...
> “But solder dust? ‘Cmon, really? How can that even be?” I can hear someone typing already… Have you seen one of these?
> [Picture of solder tip cleaner]
- Causality1 7y agoPutting aside the need of a citation or at least an explanation as to how tip cleaners create lead dust, that's a reason to use sponges with leaded solder, not a reason not to use lead solder at all.
- lolc 7y agoWith pathogens, my standards go the other way: I prefer proof they're not spread before using them. It is very reasonable to assume that grating metals against each other will create dust. That's what happens in a tip cleaner. And as for the sponges, I can see very small balls of solder on them. And I would call balls smaller than I can see "dust". Should I just assume that there is a lower bound to their size? That they're not there because I can't see them?