It’s not my intention to be fighting all over this thread, but if you’re worried about lead exposure because of the crazy crap you work on, like old radios and stuff, wear gloves at all times.
If you don’t wanna use disposable nitrile, use dishwashing gloves.
You probably won’t get 70+ bidenbrained from using the “blow the smoke away” fume extraction method as a hobbyist.
You will absolutely get 40+ bidenbrained from touching all over your leaded solder and leaded joints then touching your face/mouth.
Don’t do what farting_weedman once did and straighten a curled solder strand straight with their mouth like one might when wetting a thread and threading a needle.
It’s not my intention to be fighting all over this thread, but if you’re worried about lead exposure because of the crazy crap you work on, like old radios and stuff, wear gloves at all times.
If you don’t wanna use disposable nitrile, use dishwashing gloves.
You probably won’t get 70+ bidenbrained from using the “blow the smoke away” fume extraction method as a hobbyist.
You will absolutely get 40+ bidenbrained from touching all over your leaded solder and leaded joints then touching your face/mouth.
Don’t do what farting_weedman once did and straighten a curled solder strand straight with their mouth like one might when wetting a thread and threading a needle.
Yeahh, holding the (leaded) solder with my mouth while I’m placing components is definitely not something I do each time I’m on the iron.
Even holding old parts in your mouth by the leads is bad because sometimes they’re tinned instead of aluminum coated copper or whatever.
There’s genuinely a like “thought pattern feeling” that I’m scared is oral heavy metals exposure. Waiting on the blood panel to come back…
You can also just wash your hands after working with lead solder.
Yeah if you can’t get to gloves then that’s the best option.
One of the pcb places I worked at had a training where they went over the statistics on gloves versus hand washing and it seemed dire.
At the same time I’d believe 100% that came from a nitrile glove distributor cutout.