[Elecraft] Re: FCC rules part 18 [CF bulbs vs. LED]

Mike Geddes geddes at tampabay.rr.com
Sun Apr 15 15:39:46 EDT 2007


I have told the story many times of how we used to play with mercury in our 
hands!  Now they will shut down a whole school for something like that and 
bring in a hazmat team.  Guess ignorance is bliss!

73,
Mike
N4JX


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Makoski" <Makos327 at worldnet.att.net>
To: "Elecraft Reflector" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Re: FCC rules part 18 [CF bulbs vs. LED]


> Ken Alexander wrote:
>> And to think they used to let us roll little blobs of
>> mercury around in the palms of our hands in school to
>> show us what it looked like.  And I distincly remember
>> mixing chopped up asbestos with water to use as a sort
>> of modeling medium, which we made into small
>> objects...ashtrays mostly, for our parents!  Geesh!
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Ken Alexander, VE3HLS
>>
>>
>
> And we survived!  No seat belts or kid's car seats back then, too  And I 
> never had to be told not to eat paint chips, either!
>
> -- 
> 73 de Larry W2LJ
> QRP - When you care to use the very least!
>
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