[sdiy] Lead-free solder `~~`

[Dave Kendall]

The lead-free stuff from Maplin in the UK is crap. (IIRC from a previous
thread, it's the same as the budget stuff from Rapid)
It doesn't flow freely for soldering or tinning, even at high temperatures.
I actually threw my Maplin lead-free solder away (*gulp*) - it was that
useless..... 

You would have thought that tinning nice chunky 1/4" jack sockets was a safe
use with higher iron temperatures, but no, it still gave me grief.

There's undoubtedly some good unleaded solder out there - personally, I
won't bother looking - Synth DIY should be fun :-)

Cheers,

Dave


on 29/1/07 22:19, Casio Rapman at casiorapman at hotmail.com wrote:

> Has anyone here had good luck with lead-free solder?  A friend of mine used
> some of the stuff and said it caused some serious problems.  He had to
> desolder everything, clean it up and resolder using lead-containing solder.
> Anyone else have any similar experiences?
> Thanks!
> 
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