[TheForge] mokume from circuit boards

[Dan Brewer]

PC boards are made of some type of resin material.  When they get hot they
burn with thick clouds of black not nice smelling smoke.  

Dan in Auburn

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Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 5:22 PM
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Subject: [TheForge] mokume from circuit boards

No no no, there is heavy metal in computer circuit boards (lead, 
cadmium etc) though I suppose gold would be a fairly heavy (though 
non-toxic) metal.

My point being that circuit boards are no made, primarily, of metal. 
and the small percentage of metal that they contain is likely to be 
toxic, at least in part. THe stuff that is not metal, I suspect, is 
also not something one ought to be heating up and breathing.

But hey, just my opinion, try it and see. I'm guessing you won't try it 
twice.

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