Dear Forum Members,
There are very nice members in this forum who help others. I have never seen such kind experts.
But I noticed many forum members do not use any fume extractor while they do soldering. Flux is extremely dangerous if it reaches our eyes, or if we breathe it in, or if it stays on our hands.
Therefore, I ask all the forum members to follow these recommendations while soldering:
1- Use a cheap surgical mask to avoid entering the flux fume into your respiratory system.
2- Keep your eyes away from the flux fumes.
3- Wash your hands for a long duration if they got fluxy.
4- Use a fume extractor.
You may say that a fume extractor bothers you by taking the space on your table. this can be solved by installing the fume extractor a bit above the table. In the picture, I demonstrated where to install the fume extractor.
You can buy a fume extractor or make it yourself. For example, search on youtube for "fume extractor" to watch how to make one.
I made a good fume extractor for me. I used a flexible pipe and installed two computer case fans at the two sides of it. I connected a 12v power adapter to both the two fans. One fan breathes the air in the pipe and the other fan blows the air out of the pipe.
A good characteristic of this design is that I placed the output side of the pipe out of the window of my room. So the fumes get out of my room.
There are very nice members in this forum who help others. I have never seen such kind experts.
But I noticed many forum members do not use any fume extractor while they do soldering. Flux is extremely dangerous if it reaches our eyes, or if we breathe it in, or if it stays on our hands.
Therefore, I ask all the forum members to follow these recommendations while soldering:
1- Use a cheap surgical mask to avoid entering the flux fume into your respiratory system.
2- Keep your eyes away from the flux fumes.
3- Wash your hands for a long duration if they got fluxy.
4- Use a fume extractor.
You may say that a fume extractor bothers you by taking the space on your table. this can be solved by installing the fume extractor a bit above the table. In the picture, I demonstrated where to install the fume extractor.
You can buy a fume extractor or make it yourself. For example, search on youtube for "fume extractor" to watch how to make one.
I made a good fume extractor for me. I used a flexible pipe and installed two computer case fans at the two sides of it. I connected a 12v power adapter to both the two fans. One fan breathes the air in the pipe and the other fan blows the air out of the pipe.
A good characteristic of this design is that I placed the output side of the pipe out of the window of my room. So the fumes get out of my room.
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