Melting Lead - fumes

Any industrial or safety shop has the 3M type - you can go a couple of ways with the basic 2091 or the 2097 which don't require a prefilter, or the belt and suspenders version which are the organic vapour cartridges which protect against all of the nuisance smokes and vapours that come off the melt pool but these require the prefilters to take out the fume and mist if it is present.

https://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/...l-bulletin.pdf
https://irs-api.nzsafetyblackwoods.c...data-sheet.pdf

There are other brands that do the same job, different mask products and gear that offers different levels of performance. P2 protection is the half face mask, P3 is the full face mask incorporating the visor that you look through.

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Originally Posted by Tommy

Mate owns a radiator shop, gets tested a couple times a year as he's soldering for hours a day with just a fan behind him. It's up and own but he's been doing it 35 years and he still isn't too heavy

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Yep, the extraction fan does a huge amount of work for you in the soldering and casting/fume exposure situations. I don't know why it is, but even if you hold your breath the smoke just wafts straight up for your head like it's trying to kill you... In engineering, fume extraction is the first point of control (engineered controls) followed by PPE and then the admin/health screening.