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Default Solder sniffers beware,,, lead = bad


"Meat Plow" wrote in message news : On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 02:56:52 -0600, Dave Moore wrote:
:
: Damn, for almost a week I have been forgetting to
: post about my recent experience. So, since
: I finally remembered;
:
: Not long ago I started noticing that when I would
: play the guitar I was missing a lot of the strings.
: Also I was doing weird stuff like bumping into
: the edges of doorways on occasion,
: instead of gracefully passing through them.
: Sometimes when standing still, it would feel like
: my feet were sliding apart in this kinda weird
: almost spinning sensation. Sometimes numbness
: in the hands.
:
: Anyway, finally, it dawned on me that perhaps
: 30 years involved in electronics with a good
: 20 of them heavily involved in prototyping guitar
: amp designs, might have taken it's toll. So I did some
: research online and discovered that indeed my symptoms
: just might well be those of lead poisoning.
:
: I would have thought that this would have happened much sooner than 30
: years.
:
: --
: Pierre Salinger Memorial Hook, Line & Sinker, June 2004
:
: COOSN-266-06-25794

Why so? Metal toxicity is cumulative no? To me that means
it ain't a problem until it *is* a problem :-)