in my factory days I did a fair amount of plating, for machine parts:
silver and copper plating, generally in high temperature cyanide solutions,
etc.  those were dastardly days -- the worst being the lead plating-- wow,
seriously nasty stuff.  did that for the better part of a year, sad to
say...  UAW, as powerful as it was in the 70s, allowed it, of course,
despite my many complaints--good old #933 in Indy!

-hb

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Fred Harwood <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>
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