vintage computers and lead poisoning?

From: ed sharpe <esharpe_at_uswest.net>
Date: Mon Jun 7 01:21:34 2004

ah! an the nasty ass smell of pipe threading oil......
I think they put sulphur in the stuff.... what a flash back!

ed!
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From: "Fred Cisin" <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
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Subject: Re: vintage computers and lead poisoning?


> On Sun, 6 Jun 2004, R. D. Davis wrote:
> > True, but those who live in those flimsy new houses seem to forget
> > that others do live in real houses that were built to last more than
> > twenty-five years or so. As a result, some hardware stores don't even
> > stock basic household hardware for some older houses like door knobs
> > with a square threaded shafts connecting the knobs, selling some sort
> > of newfangled doorknob mechanisms instead.
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> But you do not often need to replace the square shaft ones,
> unless you've left the setscrew loose and stripped it,
> or chipped one of the glass ones.
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> > From what I've read, the new black iron pipe isn't threaded,
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> I've always bought the long lengths of it unthreaded.
> That's what Ridgid pipe threading dies are for.
> But, It's more convenient to buy the really short
> pieces ("nipples") already threaded.
> Still, these days, you need to sift through the entire
> stock to find some with GOOD threads.
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