[sdiy] Transition to Lead-Free Hand Soldering

[Jay Schwichtenberg]

I'm a leaded user for home stuff. Just my preference.

One thing I haven't seen mentioned here is the PCBs. There are various 
coatings used for the solder pads, this only applies for the solder 
tinned ones. So, my understanding (correct me if I'm wrong here) here is 
that you can solder lead tinned boards with lead free solder but you 
can't solder lead free tinned boards with leaded solder. So you'll have 
to know what your boards are tinned with and use the correct solder. 
That would also probably mean older solder tinned boards you should use 
leaded solder.

Ideas?

Jay S.