![]() 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. 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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