[TheForge] tig setup- health hazard?

[Steve Smith]

There is some stuff you can buy in a jar, I think it is a powder. Get 
the electrode hot, dip it in the stuff, and it comes out sharp. I looked 
into it, but backed away carefully when I saw the price. I don't 
remember how much, but it wasn't cheap.

Steve

Ron Childers wrote:

> 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
> 
>>
>>Gladish Family wrote:
>>
>>>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.
>>
>>	You can get non-thoriated electrodes.
>>
>>	Anything that is radioactive you don't really want in your
>>	body.
>>
>>
>>>Is anybody worried about this?
>>
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