Re: gEDA-user: Tin pest

[Mark Rages <markrages@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/31/06, Marvin Dickens <marvindickens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I don't know about home made equipment, but we use fume hoods that have
> walls on three sides along
> with a top. The font of the unit has a forth wall that slides up and
> down so you can get the work into the unit.
> Once the work is in the unit, the user slides the wall down and puts on
> rubber gloves. There are two openings
> in the sliding wall for the user to insert his/her hands and tools. The
> fume hood extracts air at a rate
> of 30 feet per minute. Anything that gets loose in the hood is sucked
> into a HEPA filter stack which vents
> out on the root (Yes, the HEPA filter stack makes the whole thing legal).
>

In our factory in Korea, each soldering iron had a little metal tube
by the tip, which was connected to vacuum by some surgical tubing that
ran along the power cord.

I don't know where the fumes were sucked off to, but I would be very,
very suprised if there was a filter involved, HEPA or otherwise.

Regards,
Mark
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