"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
raden wrote:
Certainly for use on potable water supplies. Doubt it for electrical or
general use. The fumes from the flux are said to be more of a risk.
They
can't be much of a risk or I'd be dead by now.

Huh ... I bet you don't get through a reel of solder a month !

Heh heh - no. More like one a year. But I do have an extractor fan by the
workbench anyway.

And the flux used now (even on lead based solders) doesn't cause asthma in
the same way the old stuff in the 60s/70s did.