In my years I have only had a couple of occasions with a splash of solder across my glasses, both times while unsoldering a wire that sprung back and launched molten solder. It is a bit foolish to say the fumes are not dangerous so don’t worry when it is so easy to limit the exposure.Īdded safety measures I did insist on with my PCB assemblers and students were to wash thoroughly after soldering and no eating while soldering, and to always wear safety specs. Some of the doctors do not believe me when I tell them I am a non-smoker.Įven if there is just a chance the fumes may cause damage, it is worth while at least having a fan to blow them aside. I don’t think the lead is the problem with the fumes, but those from the flux are.Īlthough it is not proven as the cause, I have been soldering both hobbyist and professionally for many years and now have a lung condition. It has prodded a strong urge to locate the memory it has evoked. Smell is supposedly a very strong memory key. I saw him silver solder a cast iron trivet, but recall the aroma, if any, not. Ain’t never had much memorable sperience with it, dad having needed it so rarely. As I prep to braze a drain plug onto a pickup differential, I considered the borax fumes. Leave us to enjoy ham ‘n beans and apple pie, and let nanites enjoy the sweet fog of rosins. And 100 feet away, I like skunk… an ingrediant equal to ambergrish, (sp? of which I ain’t never had the pleasure? whale vomit?) in the best perfumes, or it once’t was so. In fact, helping a mech so my pickup axle, I embraced one ancient smell of my youth, differential lube. And I are not nor weren’t never a very aroma squeemish person.
Still, while I never mined the aroma a lot, I somehow knew, too much of ANY smoke was a foul thing. Posted in Tool Hacks Tagged safety, soldering, soldering fumes Post navigationĮgg on my face, Yann… I thought 60/40 tin/lead melted at a lower temp than 70/30. We’ve also talked about general safety measures you ought to be taking before. If you want to build your own extractor, unsurprisingly we’ve seen it done many times. It would be interesting to do some analysis to determine what all that residue was. You can imagine your lungs getting even a little of the gunk that was on the cotton balls. The cotton was very sticky and coated with a yellow substance.
DESKTOP FUME EXTRACTOR FULL
Still, the cotton balls and even the housing were full of flux residue and fumes. In real life, your lungs would get only a small percentage of that. Realistically, the cotton balls probably got nearly all the fumes from the things he soldered. Then he examined what was on the cotton balls. Instead, he replaced his fan assembly with a shop vac. rigs up a fan with some plastic bottles, fans, and some cotton balls. video on soldering fumes might make us rethink that, though (see below). We sometimes roll our eyes a bit at the people with the soldering fume extractors unless you are soldering 8 hours a day, although we’ve occasionally used a small fan nearby just to get some circulation. Just keep the hot and cold end of the iron straight and remember not to flick solder off the tip on your leg and you are fine. Most of us have been soldering since we were kids and we don’t think of it as a particularly dangerous activity.
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