Ducktown?


The air should of been great for one's lungs near that site. Bet the cockroaches and ants survived after the plants died.

Greg
 
When I was an apprentice sheetmetalworker, we made a lot of stuff out of galvanized iron and stick solder was used to fix and seal the joints. Liquid raw spirits of salts (Muriatic acid) was used as the flux. That was something else you didn't want to inhale the fumes from, not a lot different to ammonia.
 
If you mean the fumes, probably breathed in quite a bit of those. Worst was when a large drop of molten solder fell off the iron's tip and went down inside my boot. Talk about hot footing it.
 
We had a guy in our shop who used to put his tamales in the soldering oven in the morning to keep them warm til lunch. No telling what migrated into his chow.

Burns - yes. Sheet metal cuts - yes, indeed!
 
The shop used to make hot water cylinders with copper tanks and had an air blower coke brazier to bronze weld the seams over. In the winter (NZ) we would toast our sandwiches on wire racks over it, after it had been turned off for the lunch break.
 



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