CORGI & Lead Solder

[marshr02]

Fair points. Especially the asbestos.

Wasn't there a lot of industry resistance to stopping use of asbestos long after the health issues were unearthed? That's the thing that gets me, I come across asbestos that obviously was put in in the last 20 years - sheer madness...

 

[sonray ltd]

they recon anything up to about 1985 has asbestos in.
but some of that dust you get in the older propertys useally the ones without the tile felt on the rafters that leaves everything covered in black sooty dust gives me a right sore throat.

 

[Deleted member 2053]

Perhaps we should start a new thread with discussion of researched dangers of the materials we use. There is a lot of urban myth out there. For example, the dust from the white asbestos used in the board you might find sealing the chimney above a back boiler is completely harmless. I would far rather breath that than the dust from old, sooty, loft insulation any day. Our views on these issues (and, sadly, those of the H&SE) have been influenced too much by the sensationalist hype that helps sell newspapers.

 

[Mike Jackson]

The COSHH sheets for some of the stuff that we use every day make interesting reading.

Mike

 

[John Flower]

Dont forget that Mapp gas can cause severe reproductive harm and is banned in California !

 

[Deleted member 2053]

Had I known that, I would have taken up plumbing earlier in life and had less kids!

 

[BrianL]

Happy New year everyone,, just a point to make about lead and its dangers, Ive worked with lead since the age of 16 welding bossing I now teach lead and have done for the last ten years, I have an annual blood test which shows very clear every year, the danger range is 50ppm+ I was 4ppm at the last count its been the same for 10 years.

I was teaching in another area of the college before Xmas and I left some lead there I got a phone call to come and collect it, they had cancelled there class and taped the area off .

There is no danger off lead poisoning unless you are working in a smelting environment or eating the stuff with every meal.

 

[fatoftheland]

I have never mixed up leaded and lead free. The rolls are different colurs, the solder has a totally different feel and colour and The solder flows and runs in different ways. I always have lots of spare lead free in the van and an odd leaded. If I run out of the leaded its no big deal except price.

 

[david williams]

only person i know who died of lead poisening was shot

 

[Plouasne]

Off topic a bit I know

A tale from the shooting world, I read in the shooting times many years ago about somebody who did die from lead poisoning, but this was caused by him not spitting out the shot when he ate it

Back on topic now, when is the UK going to catch up with a better way of doing gas work (in my mind at least) and go for silver soldering copper when its used for gas, mind you its eye wateringly expensive, 5 rods "only" 9.80€, unless you are a "pro" and then its about half price
Lead ingestion might be the cause of my two sons going into the trade as well