Quote Originally Posted by kss View Post
This is all just hobby/play money essentially, so I am not willing to take ANY amount of risk in my scrapping endeavors.... Cuts, scrapes, bruises Im fine with and get a lot of with scrapping but I dont want to mess with lead, chemicals, or anything that could have any long term health risks. Not worth it even if it was worth $100. Thats why I quit doing microwaves, dont want the risk of the beryllium stuff. I still grab them, but sell as working (after cleaning), or cut the cord and fill it with crap and shred pile it. I do always wear mechanics/demolition gloves of coarse, but still.... gotta be careful out there, thats why I make post like this before f-ing up and messing with something dangerous.... like that one guy on here who posted after tearing down a bunch of microwaves, and people told him to be careful of the pinks things... and he said he broke them all.... I dont want that to be me lol
If you're depopulating circuit boards, especially old ones like you describe then you're taking some risk of lead contamination because of the solder alone and that's before considering silica dust and more.