[TheForge] mokume from circuit boards

[Jerry Smith]

Companies that reclaim the metals in computer boards
are generally in places like Bangladesh, where there
is no EPA, these people are willing to work for
pennies an hours and risk having health problems.

Jerry

--- Dan Brewer <danqualman at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf
> Of tristerk at aol.com
> Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 5:22 PM
> To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
> 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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