[SBE] toxic chemical reminiscences

[Bush, Rich]

Okay, who remembers the mercury "wetted" relays and contactors.  We even saved the mercury to demonstrate turning pennies silver colored by rubbing them in mercury and then between you finger and thumb.

Before solid state power switching, this was the next best thing to an arc-less power switch.

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From: sbe-bounces at sbe.org [mailto:sbe-bounces at sbe.org] On Behalf Of Henry M. Seiden
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Subject: Re: [SBE] toxic chemical reminiscences

And when do we get into the lead solder?
On Aug 20, 2009, at 11:27 , A9xw at cs.com<mailto:A9xw at cs.com> wrote:


Nothing like being up to your arm pits in PCB to change diode arrays in the HV tubs. When the folks complained about a teaspoon of PCB polluting the creek in Bloomington, IN spread over a 30 year periood, and "destroying their organic gardening" the plant manager drank a glass of PCB and then said, Any questions?  It was almost as good as the regular protests of the radioactive chickens under the old stadium.  Meanwhile the coal fired heating plant C14, and the limestone in the buildings provided thousands of times more radiation.

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