[TheForge] tig setup- health hazard?

[Ron Childers]

Can't you sharpen the thoriated electrode with a torch? Seems like it would
be a a no-dust method....? Ron C


yeah, I just don't know how all this works, and why the most common
electrode would be the radioactive one, and whether the other ones work as
well, etc.
Thanks for the comment, and happy traveling.
Andy G.

 No, no, you're not thinking, you're just being logical. -Niels Bohr
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> Gladish Family wrote:
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> > OK, so I'm setting up the torch and there's a note on the manual that
> > thoriated consumables constitute a health risk because the dust from
> > sharpening them is radioactive.
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> 	You can get non-thoriated electrodes.
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> 	Anything that is radioactive you don't really want in your
> 	body.
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> > Is anybody worried about this?
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