We All Live Downstream Lead Fumes

[mark poulson]

I was reading the primer on lead pouring, and added this:

One important thing to consider is that vented fumes and dust go somewhere.

If you vent to your yard, or your neighbor's yard, you are just relocating the problem.

I don't pour any more, so this is just a heads up.

I had to take a lead safety course as part of my State Contractor's License program, and they didn't address this, either.

But when you vent to the exterior with a fan, both lead fumes and dust become airborne, and can migrate to areas where kids play, vegetables grow, and where things people handle can get coated.

I don't know what is available in the way of filters to prevent this kind of thing, but I don't think anyone here wants to create these kinds of problems for themselves, or for others.

[bass100]

There was some testing on this, I think Do-It or Infisherman did the testing. They got no lead in the fumes when they were pouring because lead can't become airborn unless aggrivated such as grinding, sanding, corrosion, etc. But if you are grinding, sanding, ect. on lead then you are absolutley correct. I use to work as an abatement supervisor and their is filters available through 3M although I don't know if they are available to the general public.

[mark poulson]

Thanks for the expert info. I still remember how nasty lead fumes were, and it's been 40+- years since I poured.

I don't know how much lead dust I've breathed over the years, or how much asbestos.

I used to pour my own sinkers from plumber's lead off the job, and do my own breaks.

When I started in construction in the '60s, we never wore dust masks or respirators.

The good news is my chest xrays come back clean, and I'm too old to die young!

But I still worry about others, especially kids.

[smalljaw]

We get lead to melt at around 700 degrees which is plenty hot but for it to vaporize and become airborne it has to reach like 961 degrees or something to that effect. I do know that grinding and sanding will create tiny particles that can get into the air but I don't think a guy pouring some lures is going to affect his neighbors that are 50 feet away, at least I don't think I am.

[RayburnGuy]

I'm too old to die young!

I know what you mean Mark. When I go I don't want anyone to have any doubt that I was holding anything back for future use.

[toadfrog]

Since my last experience a few days ago . Lead has less chance of killing me than Fog you can poke a hole in with a stick . A deer that likes to stand in the middle of the road like a tomb stone and the tree that would not give when I over compensated . My truck is toast and I now truly know what a frog in a blender goes through.

Edited November 18, 2011 by toadfrog

[RayburnGuy]

Sorry to hear about your truck Toadfrog. Hope your OK. You should have just gone ahead and hit the deer. Your truck would still be banged up, but you might have gotten a little venison to fry up.

Ben

[toadfrog]

I just stayed up to late in the man cave or I'd had better sense . Now then seems to me that lead residue being heavier than air could be captured by a series of filters stacked one after another . The first one about the density of an air conditioner filter then graduate up to a more dense filter . This would slow the air flow enough to allow the particles of lead to fall and be trapped between the filters . Just Another of My Nuttie Ideas .

[mark poulson]

I'm sorry to hear about your truck, but it sounds like you're okay, so that's a good thing.

Sounds like fog is as disorienting for deer as it is for people.

Glad you're okay.

I wondered if a settling box, with the inlet for the exhaust fumes existing below the filter level, and the outlet for the air above it, would help. I made that kind of thing for my garage dust collector, and it works great.

Edited November 21, 2011 by mark poulson