At 02:27 AM 10/20/2000, Tim May wrote: ...
PCBs are as close as your nearest utility pole transformer.
Are they as dangerous as reporters have led us to believe? My suspicion? No. ... Granted, this thread is probably about as old and dead as it can get.
I've had an electronics engineer, a former professor of mine and someone who claims to have worked on the original cruise missiles, tell me that, and I'll paraphrase as close as I can get to a quote, "one drop on the tongue of a dog is enough to kill a man". From what he provided, these things tend to cause cancer, and the dirt underneath old transformers, should those transformers have become leaky, is probably adequately tainted, and already needs clean up anyway. Impound a few ounces of alleyway dirt with the car. Then you're doing the planet a Service. Boxing up preexisting contaminated waste. Good luck, Sean Roach