Solder joints and vaping fluid.....

[Tree Top Pilot]

Picked up a couple of tanks to try out....nice I thought. I have loved my tank...but took apart the atomizer that died. I just like to see how these things are constructed. The thing that bothered me the most was the multiple solder joints inside the unit at the heating coils. I have been in electronics for 30+ years and was brought up in a home with lead solder plumbing pipe joints. Being very adamant about not consuming poisons or harmful substances I always take precautions...washing hands after soldering and using fume extractors. I am also around very dangerous chemicals in aviation maintenance. I have found a few units that don’t have lead near the liquid at all....Johnson Creek Vea atty’s and the Ego units. This has concerned me.....may be a total waste of time for some others to read.....but I like to know what I am putting in my body. After all that is the reason I started vaping. More investigation to other atty’s as I get them. Your thoughts?

 

[Bullette the Cowdog]

Very interesting TTPilot.
Keep up the investigation. I will look for your reports.

 

[six]

There's no lead in the solder used in attys and cartos.

I haven't seen the thread pop up in maybe 6 months, but there are a couple of ECF-ers who test new attys and cartos for lead now and then and post their results. The search box might dig up one of those threads for you.

 

[Rader2146]

Everything that I have disassembled has been lead-free solder. That seems to be the industry standard right now since nearly everything produced these days needs to be ROHS compliant. If you have reason to believe that your device has leaded solder, then you are right and that is a big problem. But I don't think that is the case.

 

[Tree Top Pilot]

OK I will have this part checked out by the lab. It's just the solder joint was very soft...easily carved. I did not check the melt point temperature. For all our sake....I hope there is no lead in any of these things.

 

[six]

For all our sake....I hope there is no lead in any of these things.

There isn't.