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Late Uncles Electronics stash: Things to not use anymore because of safety and obsoleteness and things that are as good as new (feddit.org)
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So my late uncle was working at Siemens and had a "little" home workshop/lab with resistors, capacitors, ICs, switches, soldering boards, wires and what there is. He learned something regarding radio (german: Nachrichtentechniker I think). Among others there was a self built radio clock (that got quite warm, plugged it out bc of safety concerns)

Now I am getting into microelectronics and roughly know what there is. But I only know that I should not use the leaded soldering tin (bc lead) - is there anything else that is unsafe because of old standards or aging? What should be safe to use?

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[–] aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 days ago

i use nitrile gloves and am careful about solder debris; often doing the work on a piece of cardboard I can discard. I don’t sweep debris onto the floor or blow it away.