fish@ihlpg.UUCP (Bob Fishell) (02/28/85)
*** AC T YOUR AGE *** I've been doing a lot of soldering lately. Try as I might, I can't completely avoid getting a snootful of rosin vapor from time to time. Now, I know this can't be good for me, but is rosin vapor something that's been singled out by, say, OSHA as a significant occupational hazard? /_\_ Bob Fishell ihnp4!ihlpg!fish
mab@ttidcb.UUCP (Michael A. Bloom) (03/16/85)
In article <212@ihlpg.UUCP> fish@ihlpg.UUCP (Bob Fishell) writes: > >I've been doing a lot of soldering lately. Try as I might, I can't >completely avoid getting a snootful of rosin vapor from time to >time. Now, I know this can't be good for me, but is rosin vapor >something that's been singled out by, say, OSHA as a significant >occupational hazard? While I'm unaware of such a study, my own experience indicates that rosin vapor can indeed have bad effects. When I was a teenager, I spent much of my time building experimental circuits. The fumes from the rosin after a while would cause my breathing to become labored, much like an asthmatic, and It would often take half an hour from the time I left the room where I'd been soldering before I could breathe freely again. Occasionally It was so bad that I would have to borrow my sister's prescription asthma inhaler. -- -- Michael Bloom --- {philabs,trwrb,cadovax,randvax}!ttidca!mab