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I'm not speaking for Kevin, but in a former life I repaired Linotype
machines. The ingots of lead often were suspended in the melting pot as the
typesetter worked.  The exposure probably would have been by vapor, and by
handling the lead both as type and as ingot, and by any small particles
ingested.


on 7/6/11 11:01 AM, Sharon McCoy at [log in to unmask] wrote:

> Kevin--what was the process in typesetting that would release a lot of lead
> dust 
> (was it powder before they melted it?)?

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