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| EEEnthusiast:
Checking the eyes is the easiest and fastest thing which can rule out many other issues. I had the same brain fog effect after few minutes of soldering and I was also worried if my brain had been fried due to years of lead use. But I was lucky to get the issue identified and fix it. Fumes may produce asthma or breathing difficulties..and a head ache if you are allergic to some fumes. A simplest thing is to try out other close up work to see if the same symptoms appear. Good luck. |
| Electro Detective:
The solder you are using and or the flux in it may be crap, and or the soldering iron may be running too hot, or breathing in idle tip burning crusty residues etc Also what you are soldering to may be giving off a combo of nasty fumes with the solder, that don't agree with you Next time try soldering with protective eyeware , thin gloves and wear one of those cheap face masks that are USELESS for the Corona virass, yet good enough for direct solder fumes in your face If that fails on improvement, it's time to consider knocking up a cheap tacky DIY fume extraction setup Good luck :-+ EDIT: "Next time try soldering with protective eyeware , thin gloves" Clarified sentence > "Next time try soldering with protective eyeware , thin LEATHER or fire resist gloves" FYI > test ~burn~ the gloves BEFORE putting them on :scared: |
| jogri:
--- Quote from: Electro Detective on April 05, 2020, 05:23:32 am ---Next time try soldering with protective eyeware , thin gloves and wear one of those cheap face masks that are USELESS for the Corona virass, yet good enough for direct solder fumes in your face --- End quote --- Please don't do that, soldering while wearing rubber gloves is a good way to get yourself into the emergency room... A burn might hurt for a while, but having molten plastic inside a wound is a totally different story. Btw, at a guess i'd say that the normal face mask won't do anything against the fumes: We are dealing with gases, those particles are way too small to get blocked by the mask. You would need a mask that has a layer of activated carbon, and those masks are long gone. |
| Nauris:
There seems to be big difference between brands too. Bought some small spool of Stannol solder and it makes me cough and feel ill immediately. Smoke it makes is just so terrible I can't use it at all. But my two decades old spool of Multicore solder, no such symptoms. Both are lead-free, so the difference is not in that. But anyway I use solderless breadboard usually. |
| jmelson:
--- Quote from: jogri on April 05, 2020, 10:22:50 am --- --- Quote from: Electro Detective on April 05, 2020, 05:23:32 am ---Next time try soldering with protective eyeware , thin gloves --- End quote --- Please don't do that, soldering while wearing rubber gloves is a good way to get yourself into the emergency room... A burn might hurt for a while, but having molten plastic inside a wound is a totally different story. --- End quote --- Well, it would be extremely rare to have an accident where an electronics soldering iron pierced the skin. I have gotten VERY good at always knowing where the tip of the iron is, and also gotten my reaction time down to where if anything touches me unexpectedly I swing the soldering iron away from my hands. Maybe once a year I touch my hand with the iron, and almost never get a burn as I pull it away SUPER fast. That's a skill to develop if you are going to be doing this a lot. When soldering under the microscope, the area I'm working on is in the field of view, but my hands and most of the soldering iron are NOT, so you just need to know where your hands and the iron are. Still, for protection from heavy metals, just wash you hands after soldering, it will all come off. Jon |
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