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Re:Data Runner Watch Prototype – Modded Casio F91W by rcar on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @12:00PM (#23977113)
I was curious about what "pot steel" was - for anyone else who hadn't encountered it before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot_metal
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Re:Data Runner Watch Prototype – Modded Casio F91W by plutonic on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @03:27PM (#23979699)
It’s nice to know all those Casio watches I’ve been wearing for years and years probably have lead exposed on them :/
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Re:Data Runner Watch Prototype – Modded Casio F91W by jdietrich on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @10:05PM (#23982811)
Modern pot metal alloys are nearly all lead free, partly due to the EU's RoHS regulations and partly because lead is a lot more expensive than zinc.

It's also worth pointing out that metallic lead isn't all that toxic - it's lead compounds that you need to worry about, especially organic compounds.

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