Posted by Brian on August 24, 2003 at 09:27:15:
In Reply to: My lead free solder experience posted by Krys on August 21, 2003 at 12:30:47:
If you are washing your hands after handling lead and especially before eating or anything like that and not putting lead into your mouth, you are not going to "die from lead poisoning" doing glass work.
There has to be more to story this guy told you. Unless is friend was eating lead while he was doing glass there are definately facts missing.
: What I really, really liked about it was that it didn't seem fumey at all. I didn't feel like I was running the risk of lead poisoning. (A side note: I met a nice man from Denmark a few months ago and when he found out I did stained glass he got very serious and said, "Be very careful with that stuff. My best friend was a stained glass artist and died of lead poioning." So, even though I do have a fume trap, and wash up and try to be very careful that little piece of information is always rattling around in my head when I solder.....and I'll admit it, soldering had been the hardest part for me to learn with this art. I am self taught, and if anything will bring me to cursing it is soldering!)