From: "Steve B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [RCSE] Solder fumes and carbon dust solution Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 10:11:55 -0800 (PST)
Solder tips: 1) Avoid having face over rising smoke before it rises :) 2) Slowly exhale for each solder connection. 3) Continue exhaling as you run away. 4) Make sure to run upwind and inhale that fresh air. 5) Think about your next solder, take a deap breath and run inside.
Cheap super fume hood:
Take a 5 gallon bucket (bucket upgradeable at any time) upside down with a hole in the bottom.
Suspend it a few inches above your solder area.
Get a cheap wet dry vac ($25 or so) or go for the gas one if you want.
Also get a 25 foot extension hose.
Place the vac downwind, outside a window, in a tree.
Wet the inner filter with soap and water to help catch fine particles, poisons, inert material,
DNA altering and cancerous fumes.
Use an extension cord and run it along the hose to the vac.
Control the power with a power strip next to your soldering iron.
If someone asks you what the goofy bucket is have them look inside. Flip on the switch to release their hands from the bucket.
Tell them you are serious about fumes and that they can smoke in your garage as long as they keep
their head in the bucket :)
For carbon cutting perhaps the bucket could be placed on the bottom?
--- Gary Marks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I, just this evening, purchased a Weller brand Soldering kit at Lowe's. The
> instructions, which took me almost 50 years to learn to read first, say that
> solder fumes are hazardous and the equipment should only be used with good
> ventilation. An article I read recently attributes such exposure to nerve
> and lung damage occurring in electronics workers. I'm sure that the time and
> amount of exposure must be considered, but with all the ways to protect
> one's self from such things, why take a chance?
>
> Gary
>
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