Soldering and other skills (was Re: QL-Quality (Was: ZX-81 Question))

From: Tothwolf <tothwolf_at_concentric.net>
Date: Mon Apr 1 16:59:53 2002

On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Sridhar the POWERful wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Chad Fernandez wrote:
>
> > Yes, I think your right. Still, I didn't realize that it contained such
> > a high percentage of lead. Me thinks, I'll be more carefull while
> > handleing it in the future. Lead is absorbed through the skin if I'm
> > not mistaken.
>
> Even handling cool boards, pricking yourself with solder points, can be
> dangerous, if you do it enough.

The "light touch" when handling such boards is learned by experience ;)

I imagine most anyone who has learned how to sort though a box of computer
boards without injury knows exactly what I'm talking about...

-Toth
Received on Mon Apr 01 2002 - 16:59:53 BST