Ask Slashdot: How To Safely Saw Up Motherboards?

James-NSC writes "I like to do arts and crafts. I've been saving up motherboards for a while as a new medium and I started working on it last night. I wore the same gear I wear while painting – fine particulate respirator and safety goggles. I just cut some templates out of some motherboards and when I was done I used the shop-vac to clean myself & workspace up before removing my mask. Even after 5+ minutes, in a well ventilated area (not as well as it should have been apparently) my first breath was pins and needles. I'm looking into containment and exhaust solutions – ala baby's first iron lung, but seriously, am I nuts? Are these materials just too toxic to work with?"

mild suggestion

[phantomfive]

You said

Even after 5+ minutes, in a well ventilated area (not as well as it should have been apparently) my first breath was pins and needles.

Your first breath? Try breathing more often?

Careful...

[mr_lizard13]

Don't breathe that stuff in. You might catch a virus.

Simple...

[Equuleus42]

Just hold your breath for the duration of the sawing + another five minutes just to be sure.

Re:Underwater

[JohnRoss1968]

Drink it. It will make you smarter.
It works. I did that once and now I'm smart enough to never do it again.

Oven ready

[GerryHattrick]

In a 'shop making telephone boards in the '60s, we heated the sheets in ovens before the big presses hit them. Put our pies for lunch in those ovens too. Then, open drilling and open flow-solder. Citric acid for drinks came from the (gold) plating 'shop - "other bottle, boy, that one's the cyanide". Never did *me* any harm.

sounds familiar

[OrangeTide]

that would be the same as the instructions for a ShopVac bong.