Glamorous Glennis: the orangest Microjet

[Old Wombat]

You're all good, mate; unless you take to adding lead salts to your food, or cooking in lead saucepans or frypans.

[TheChronicOne]

I think I'm good!!

All my cookware is galvanized steel w/ asbestos non stick coating for extra protection!      I always make sure to cook with high heat to kill the germs and clean them with steel wool instead of water because I don't want corrosion to set in. 

Seriously though now I wonder what all that white powdery stuff is.. does lead "corrode" ? I got the fishing weights I use out of a tackle box that had obviously spent time either partially or fully submerged in water.. a lot of the fish hooks and metal stuff was rusted up pretty bad and of course these lead weights and the container they are in have all this powdery white stuff.

Sorry for dragging this off topic, Z.  Glamourous Glennis looks so glorious there in the spot of honor on The Shelf.     

[KiwiZac]

 

[Old Wombat]

Brad, the white stuff is lead salts or lead oxide but, honestly, unless you're licking it off your fingers or the sinkers every day there's little risk to your health, if any.

[waffle mode; ON]

Lead paints were 1st banned from toys, as were lead-based alloys, because children chewed on them & ingested the lead. House-hold paints were banned later because breathing in the paint dust when sanding it off was not a wise move (& most people didn't wear masks) & some people let their children lick or eat their walls (don't ask me, I didn't). If you have an old house that still has lead-based paint on the walls so are supposed to get it removed by professionals, these days. However, if you take sensible precautions, like keeping it damp while removing it, & try to scrape it off rather than sanding it off you're highly unlikely to ingest dangerous amounts. One thing to remember, though, is that lead is a cumulative toxin & builds up in your body over many years.

The effects are much more pronounced in children, with their developing brains, & people who are/were in constant contact with it on a daily basis.


It sends people barmy, by the way (ask the Romans about what it did to their wealthy classes with their bourgeois plumbing), degrades neurological development & impairs cognitive functions.

(plumbing cf. Latin plumbum = lead)

[waffle mode; OFF]

[TheChronicOne]

".... & some people let their children lick or eat their walls . ..."




And glad to know about my sinkers, thanks.    I got scared for a moment thinking that stuff might be something more detrimental to my health than common "dust".  Good to know my hobby isn't trying to assassinate me; at least in the short run. 

[kerick]

Handling a fishing sinker once and a while is a very minimal exposure. Wear some plastic gloves if you want to be more protected. Probably more trouble breathing paint fumes.

[Dizzyfugu]

Cute! 

[zenrat]

She's a little cutie Zac.

If only I had one.  Oh, hang on...