Re: gEDA-user: Tin pest

[Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 31 January 2006 11:06, Larry Doolittle wrote:
>Dave -
>
>On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 10:14:29AM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
>>   According to a chemist friend, there is Pb in the solder
>> fumes...but frankly, I'm 36 and have been soldering regularly since
>> I was 7...if there was THAT much Pb in there I'd probably be dead by
>> now.
>
>But do you have any kids?
>
>   - Larry  <gd&r>

Yeah, 6 of them.  5 still alive, one daughter died of throat cancer 
about 5 years ago.  Never smoked.  I've also worked up to my elbows for 
hours at a time in transformer pcb's.  I'm 71, and other than a little 
sugar & a bay window, in pretty good shape for 71.  Your point is?

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