[TheForge] tig setup- health hazard?

[The Millers]

That would be Chem Sharp, the jar I bought was  about $20, about 6 
years ago.......
still using the same jar

Ray

On Thursday, September 9, 2004, at 06:24 PM, Steve Smith wrote:

> 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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