Should I really not clean leaded glass windows on my kitchen table?

I'd do it elsewhere just in case, but then I wash my hands after handling 30s pot metal jewelry.

 

Hi,
I would do it on my kitchen table as you are. I would just lay down paper and do the stuff on the paper. keep the stuff wet so the dust does not fly if you are scrapping the lead. Rinse it well in the sink and depose of the papers. Washing the table and counters when you are done helps. A lot of the fear about lead is it being ingested. If your grandson wants to chew on the panels just say no. The tiny amount that you may stir up is not going to harm anyone. It was a ploy to start companies to abate lead back in the 80s. It is almost like the fear of radiation from Fiesta. Back ground levels are all around us. The lead in gasoline would have killed 90% of the population. Children chewed on lead paint on window sills for years.
greg

 

The kid would have to eat a tub full to come to harm.

Virtually everything is wildly exaggerated when it comes to the peril of everyday objects.

Most of the water I ever drunk came through lead pipes, I played with mercury at school, I eat carrots straight out of the ground, and we used to burn any old tyres and plastic on November 5th Bonfires, and dive in and out of the smoke.

Not to mention the rain in the 1950s was what would be called low level nuclear waste nowadays. (I was the geek kid with the Geiger counter measuring the stuff, happy days of atmospheric testing.)

In general, if everything was so dangerous, there would be far fewer people around, and way, way fewer old people.

 

Children with mental malfunctions were observed eating paint chips and a 'scientist' with a brain disorder concluded that the eating was causative rather than verse visa

Solid lead pipes for plumbing were the norm for many centuries

 

Chances are testosterone poisoning has killed more people than lead ever did.(LOL)

 

Big Fresca drinker back in the day, before saccharin was banned. Did you know they still put in toothpaste?

Played in the yard where Dad sprayed DDT to kill the bugs.
He also brought home the mercury from the broken thermometers for us to play with.

What were the canisters on the telephone poles? PC?something.

To tell the truth, there is more brain cancer today than I ever remember hearing about. That seems to be more prevalent after cell phones were so readily available.

I'm with everyone else, the small amount that your grandson will be exposed to isn't going to hurt him.

 

We used to roll mercury around in our hands because it was so cool. Well, maybe I'm not the best candidate for early lead poisoning. I do tend to be very strange sometimes. I always blame the 60s.

 

Wash your hands after cleaning. Wash your grandson's hands. All will be well. (I love that so many of us grew up in times where you didn't have "play dates," you could walk to school alone without fear and lawn darts were a fun game, not an accident waiting to happen, as so much of life is nowadays...) Gawd, I've turned into an "old fa*t!) Ack!

 

You know I was talking to some young fellows - 12ish or so. Had some of the fanciest of skate boards all decked out in their fancy helmets and pads.

I told them my first skate board had metal skate wheels. I skate boarded barefoot, without a helmet, or knee/elbow pads in an area that had no sidewalks. So when you hit a piece of gravel you went flying. (Weeeeeeeeeeee.) The scars on my feet and knees have faded after 50 years, but still there if I look.

 

Oh and I almost forgot about the Flexiflyer. We had so much fun with that.