Telephone lines frequently get blown down and in the old days they used to be connected up by soldering the lines.
I can remember our workshop where my brothers made their first wireless sets, laboriously soldering the wires and terminals of a three-dimensional circuit and fitting the vacuum-tube valves.
The report, while admitting that the old type soldering of joints could cause lead pollution, emphasises, to console us, that it probably takes 40 years before it is significantly dangerous.
It is rather like soldering the lid on the kettle and turning up the gas.
In practice, that often means a soldering iron instead of a sewing machine.
Hi-fi was for experts with soldering irons, and the only pocket calculator was a slide rule.
It can be used for hand skills, such as sawing, filing, fitting, soldering and welding, and for machine skills, such as turning, shaping and boring.
The husband of this woman had spent all his time in soldering ammunition cases.
