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Re: HPS Disposal « Reply #15 on: April 30, 2021, 08:30:45 AM » Author: HPSM250R2
What about touching the components inside the lamp? Is all the metal parts and the arctube safe to handle? Especially if using the arctube to sharpen knives? lol
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Re: HPS Disposal « Reply #16 on: April 30, 2021, 12:11:11 PM » Author: sox35
We rung our local council to ask about disposal of light bulbs. They said they have no facilities and to just throw them in the bin with the general waste  ::)

We try our best to recycle, but if the local authority won't do anything, what can we do..?
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Re: HPS Disposal « Reply #17 on: April 30, 2021, 12:12:12 PM » Author: HPSM250R2
We rung our local council to ask about disposal of light bulbs. They said they have no facilities and to just throw them in the bin with the general waste  ::)

We try our best to recycle, but if the local authority won't do anything, what can we do..?

Including HID?
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Re: HPS Disposal « Reply #18 on: April 30, 2021, 12:13:55 PM » Author: sox35
I would assume so, but I don't suppose they get many residential users wanting to dispose of HID lamps. They're not widely used on residential property here as they seem to be where you are.
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Re: HPS Disposal « Reply #19 on: May 01, 2021, 08:09:44 AM » Author: Medved
What about touching the components inside the lamp? Is all the metal parts and the arctube safe to handle? Especially if using the arctube to sharpen knives? lol

I would better be really careful. There are many sharp things, many have stresses inside which may suddenly get relesed once some part gives up and shoot the sharp parts around (some metal subframes welded together, the arctube itself, the outer bulb,...), many are fragile and tend to b reak into sharp pieces, many are contaminated by toxic elements (Hg, Ba,...), often mixed with a reactive substance so easy to spread (Na, Ba,...).

So "uses" as "knife sharpener" are really very bad idea, better to not do it.
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