100% accurate - Empirical Evidence ONLY - LEAD poisoning symptoms POLL.

[sodderboy]

Someone had me do a job with NASA solder and it smells like maple syrup. Mmmmm

 

[Gold]

I worry far more about the nice smell of burning organic flux than the lead itself.

If I leave a bottle of flux open on the bench, after a couple of hours I feel queezy and get a headache.

 

[leswatts]

Decades of handling leaded solder. Still use leaded gasoline flying light aircraft.
Uh, what was this thread about?

Les

 

[gyraf]

When we discussed this topic MANY years ago (maybe at the old RO lab?), someone there did a genuine empirical test to check the subject (who?). It was based on the slightly different isotope compositions of lead, that means that you by some variation of spectrometry (?) to some degree can distinguish between lead originating from different mines.

Net result in his case was that lead known to have been used in solder, although detectable, was far outweighed by the lead known to have been widely used as a gasoline additive.

Metallic lead is really hard to get into your body (if you're not being shot at) - but the formulations used as additives are quite biologically active.

Jakob E.