It’s not my intention to be fighting all over this thread, but if you’re worried about lead exposure because of the crazy crap you work on, like old radios and stuff, wear gloves at all times.

If you don’t wanna use disposable nitrile, use dishwashing gloves.

You probably won’t get 70+ bidenbrained from using the “blow the smoke away” fume extraction method as a hobbyist.

You will absolutely get 40+ bidenbrained from touching all over your leaded solder and leaded joints then touching your face/mouth.

Don’t do what farting_weedman once did and straighten a curled solder strand straight with their mouth like one might when wetting a thread and threading a needle.

gonna keep using the leaded because I turn on my fume hood if i need to melt it and it works like a million times better

Ew, imagine having brittle, unreliable solder joints instead of just using the fume extractor that you should already be using. You think that flux smoke is good for you?

Maybe they'd still be able to solder if they hadn't huffed so much lead.

Nah. Multilayer boards and smd stuff with tiny little plastic parts need leaded to safely desolder and clean up.

If you’re talking about through hole and some larger pitch smd soldering then yeah, you can get away with lead free especially in paste form.

Love to solder my components at at least 1749° in order to boil the lead and inhale the fumes.

It's like saying using a power drill instead of a screw driver. Leaded solder is so much easier to work with so bit using it doesn't make sense. You keep bringing up RoHS electronics but those are soldered at high heat in a controlled environment by robots. Non leader solder works fine for that and it's mid environmentally friendly for mass produced electronics to not use lead.

There's non-lead soder?

I love how 50% of these comments defending lead solder don't use capital letters or sorrel-check there comment. I been using led solder for years and can't see ant issues.