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Re: So, today I.m given a Keith Monks Laboratory Pickup Arm. What to do?...PIC

Posted by unclestu52 (D) on May 15, 2007 at 00:01:38

In Reply to: Re: So, today I.m given a Keith Monks Laboratory Pickup Arm. What to do?...PIC posted by jweiss on May 13, 2007 at 20:43:42:

Fluorescent lights contain mercury. While working for the US Navy broken lights had to have special covering to prevent spills from breakage. It was not so much for toxicity as that mercury in contact with other metals can create fractures in their crystalline structure, weakening their structural integrity.

I wonder about your advocating adding more possible toxicity to an already, as you point out, toxic environment. Using a KMAL arm is not a matter of necessity, like some laboratory instrumentation and other devices. There are many other arms on the market, many with superior performance attributes. As one poster already stated, his experience with the KMAL arm suffered because of the oxidation byproducts which floated on the surface of the mercury eventually deteriorating the contacts.

Think about it: a potentially trouble some arm, possibility of health issues, long term (incidentally, I've seen x-rays of a child's abdomen who swallowed mercury, interesting to see the globules in his intestinal tract, and he apparently suffered no serious consequences), so why bother?

I've always wanted a KMAL arm but simply to study, never to really use.

Stu

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