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Today is my 65th birthday. I've been using lead/tin based solder for most of my life and when a youth use to play with pure mercury which was a lot of fun. I will die of some cause but I suspect that solder and past contact with mercury will not be the reason. Lead free solder is not something will ever play with until, if ever, I run out of my lead based solder and can't find replacements anywhere including E-bay. I'll let others work on saving the planet as I figure the planet as a finite lifetime anyway once the Sun explodes.

Lefty

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I've been using lead/tin based solder for most of my life and when a youth use to play with pure mercury which was a lot of fun. I will die of some cause but I suspect that solder and past contact with mercury will not be the reason.

Neither will kill you dead except in massive doses. They just kill lots of brain cells, leading to things like the fall of the Roman Empire and the expression "mad as a hatter".

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I've been using lead/tin based solder for most of my life and when a youth use to play with pure mercury which was a lot of fun. I will die of some cause but I suspect that solder and past contact with mercury will not be the reason.

Neither will kill you dead except in massive doses. They just kill lots of brain cells, leading to things like the fall of the Roman Empire and the expression "mad as a hatter".

but, but, but, look at my karma count, how could my past damaged brain cells account for that?