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. > > > -- Harold K. Bush, Ph.D Professor of English Saint Louis University St. Louis, MO 63108 314-977-3616 (w); 314-771-6795 (h) <www.slu.edu/x23809.xml>