KCSO
11-27-2006, 09:49 PM
Here is how dangerous lead was thought to be in 1960.
I went to an old print shop to negotiate the purchase of a smelter. This was a natural gas unit with a pot for 300 lbs. It was built into a basement of the print shop in the 30's and was used up until about 1979. The dirt floor of the basement was just about all lead droppings and there wasn't a winjdow in the whole place. The smelted 300 lbs a week in there for over 50 years. The pot was a covered unit and was vented into the buildings chimney. I asked the owner about lead vapors and he said that as lond as you didn't smoke while working the lead it wouldn't bother you. He also told me that after the big hoorah about lead he got a blood test and was just fine, so he hasn't worried about it. He did admit that his dad died of lung cancer at 85, but he didn't know if that was the lead or the 2 packs of Camels a day. Meanwhile I have kids who want a blood test every 3 months because they work on an outdoor range and that is a dangerous environment. Sometimes I wonder how anyone ever lived over 25 in Missouri, as that whole country is one giant lead deposit.
I went to an old print shop to negotiate the purchase of a smelter. This was a natural gas unit with a pot for 300 lbs. It was built into a basement of the print shop in the 30's and was used up until about 1979. The dirt floor of the basement was just about all lead droppings and there wasn't a winjdow in the whole place. The smelted 300 lbs a week in there for over 50 years. The pot was a covered unit and was vented into the buildings chimney. I asked the owner about lead vapors and he said that as lond as you didn't smoke while working the lead it wouldn't bother you. He also told me that after the big hoorah about lead he got a blood test and was just fine, so he hasn't worried about it. He did admit that his dad died of lung cancer at 85, but he didn't know if that was the lead or the 2 packs of Camels a day. Meanwhile I have kids who want a blood test every 3 months because they work on an outdoor range and that is a dangerous environment. Sometimes I wonder how anyone ever lived over 25 in Missouri, as that whole country is one giant lead deposit.