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Offline janoc

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Re: NEW, SUPER-EFFICIENT DESOLDERING METHOD. Yeah, right...
« Reply #25 on: November 05, 2019, 09:28:44 pm »
I have actually reported this video to Youtube under the "Dangerous acts" category. They better take it down before some idiot (and there are plenty of them in the comments!) decides to emulate this fool.
Knowing YT they will kindly ignore your report or if they don't, the video will be reuploaded next day together with a short commentary about New World Order taking down videos to sell more hot air stations.

I also took the liberty of using copy-and-paste to reply to many of the comments with a warning.
You do it because you know they don't care about your opinion :P

So in other words it is better to not even try and sit with a smug face and smartass comments instead.  |O

I am not naive, but if nobody reports such content, then no wonder that nothing is done.
 

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Re: NEW, SUPER-EFFICIENT DESOLDERING METHOD. Yeah, right...
« Reply #26 on: November 06, 2019, 07:30:33 am »
So in other words it is better to not even try and sit with a smug face and smartass comments instead.  |O
I wouldn't be doing it if I didn't believe it :-+

On one hand a guy who has been using mercury for years and is still alive, on the other hand a guy who says that by his logic the other guy should be dead. Who wins?
And if Indians or whoever consider mercury a medicine then guess what, kicking them out of YT will at best push them to some Indian site where no one will see anything weird in it.

I don't understand people who get emotional about shit they find on the Internet. :-//
 

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Re: NEW, SUPER-EFFICIENT DESOLDERING METHOD. Yeah, right...
« Reply #27 on: November 06, 2019, 10:04:54 am »
So in other words it is better to not even try and sit with a smug face and smartass comments instead.  |O
I wouldn't be doing it if I didn't believe it :-+

On one hand a guy who has been using mercury for years and is still alive, on the other hand a guy who says that by his logic the other guy should be dead. Who wins?

I guess you don't understand that "handling mercury" and "soldering with it" (= heating it up, producing clouds of toxic fumes and splatter) is not quite the same thing. Also mercury won't kill you outright - you know, it used to be used as a remedy for syphilis, typhoid fever or parasites (yes, you were literally asked to drink it, if the patient died, oops, clearly that parasite was too strong and mercury dose too small!). The problem is long term exposure - the dose is cumulative, mercury accumulates in your body over time (same as lead and cadmium).

That the guy isn't dead yet means squat - the video has been posted on 25th of October, he claims it is a "new method", so it is very likely he isn't doing this for a sufficiently long time to have accumulated enough dose to have serious problems yet.

You are only showing your ignorance, dude.

And if Indians or whoever consider mercury a medicine then guess what, kicking them out of YT will at best push them to some Indian site where no one will see anything weird in it.

I don't understand people who get emotional about shit they find on the Internet. :-//

So in other words, it is better to not do anything and let clueless idiots get hurt/poisoned, even though we can at least alert YT about it. I can't do squat about any Indian websites but that doesn't mean we should ignore shit like this where we can do something about it.

Wonderful attitude - are you also that guy who, when seeing a road accident, whips up the phone and starts filming instead of trying to help, because "it won't make any difference anyway"?

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Re: NEW, SUPER-EFFICIENT DESOLDERING METHOD. Yeah, right...
« Reply #28 on: November 06, 2019, 10:18:45 am »
Now, clean metallic mercury isn't in it's most dangerous form, I DO NOT MEAN IT IS SAFE, however, if any of that metallic mercury you come into contact with has any tiny amount it in it's organic form, you WILL suffer the consequences slowly over time, no matter what.  Only the dosage will determine the speed at which the following will develop, and once such an exposure has happened, you will not know until it is too late:



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Re: NEW, SUPER-EFFICIENT DESOLDERING METHOD. Yeah, right...
« Reply #29 on: November 06, 2019, 04:08:06 pm »
Considering both the cost and related health concerns I can't see this as efficient except for the time actually removing the chip, there is all the prep, then the cleanup, so not really time saving.
My efficient method is an xacto knife across the pins at the chip so you don't cut traces, then lift the chip off and drag solder off the pins left on the board. Takes about 5 minutes and the board is ready.
 

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Re: NEW, SUPER-EFFICIENT DESOLDERING METHOD. Yeah, right...
« Reply #30 on: November 06, 2019, 08:06:33 pm »
At the end of the video he says it’s mercury and calls it “harmless”.

The second half of the video is muted for me. But as I said it doesn't look like Mercury unless it has already been turned into an alloy. Could be a Gallium Tin alloy that can melt around 25-28C. Anyway nice screwdriver tip he is using. :)
It looks like he’s wiped every trace of him mentioning mercury. The video used to have scrolling text at the end, describing it as “harmless” mercury, and that’s gone now. And he’s deleted every comment where he says what it is or where to get it.
 

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Re: NEW, SUPER-EFFICIENT DESOLDERING METHOD. Yeah, right...
« Reply #31 on: November 06, 2019, 08:08:49 pm »
That the guy isn't dead yet means squat - the video has been posted on 25th of October, he claims it is a "new method", so it is very likely he isn't doing this for a sufficiently long time to have accumulated enough dose to have serious problems yet.
In a now-deleted reply to a comment, he said he’d been using it for years without problems.
 


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