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Health issues due to soldering fumes.
james_s:
I picked up the wrong end of a firestick a few times when I was a kid but I haven't had that happen since getting a soldering station with a decent stand. Closest I've come is brushing my finger just briefly with the barrel of the iron, makes a sizzle sound but doesn't burn living tissue if it's just an instantaneous brush. I don't think gloves offer much benefit to soldering, just wash your hands well when you're done and don't eat finger food while doing it.
tooki:
--- Quote from: VK3DRB on April 05, 2020, 02:29:55 am ---The old corrosive fluxes were definitely bad for your lungs, and I used to wheeze a bit when doing a lot of soldering, but I was fine. These days, fluxes are pretty safe.
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What are you talking about?!? Modern lead-free fluxes are far more aggressive to the lungs than old rosin flux was. Did you not read the thread before replying, where even a health and safety official in a company was able to be convinced that the modern fluxes are worse than the old ones?
tooki:
--- Quote from: Nauris on April 05, 2020, 03:51:52 pm ---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.
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Stannol and Multicore are the same company (Henkel). But they make many different fluxes, so even within lead-free, there are some that are rosin based, others organic chemical based, others synthetic resin...
Electro Detective:
The same rules that the welding industry never stops pumping into wannabee zappers should be the same in soldering
Avoid any and all fumes at any cost,
or consider a career change asap
i.e. when melting any metal to metal,
your are going to have a bad day breathing in crap that human lungs were not designed for from birth = DUH... :o
GlennSprigg:
I'm old now, so I'm sorry that I don't give a F$%# now! :)
If I can't smell the solder/flux when doing my 'work' then it just doesn't seem real! ;D
I've been 'Doing-It' & 'Smelling-It' for over 50 years now, and it has nothing to do with
my life limiting condition as we speak!! (Except being informed about my Grammar !! 8))
I guess it's all to do with teaching an old dog new tricks. I'll leave that to the Future! ;D
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