Originally Posted by blammer
I heard that tale too about lead fumes.

Look up the properties of lead.

620 degrees or so to melt

3,000 degrees or so to vaporize and get in the air to inhale.

yea, not happening on your puny little furnace. smile

what you smell is the 'trash' that is burning off of the lead, and most think that is the lead fumes. It's not.

my wife had the same argument when we started a family. Fortunately I could get her to think logically about what she was concerned about. I promised to keep the mess to a minimum and outside and wash my hands when done. Washing hands and keeping clean is the biggest help of anything.


Exactly. "Lead fumes" is yet another Old Wive's Tale. (I don't have an old wife, but I have a young-er girlfriend, and she has some bizarre tales to tell too!)

"You can lead a man to logic, but you cannot make him think." Joe Harz
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