Well, lead fishing weights are/will be banned quickly too.
(The fishing junk often gets lost/discarded and kills water birds and
other animals, and it is not nice to die of lead poisoning.)
So if you try to outpace the competition this way you need to use
something else, and you also need to make sure nobody checks your
products, which will probably happen.
I'm aware you were merely joking.
I personally don't think lead in electronics has to be a problem, but if
you look how it is discarded, it is a problem now. I think it would have
been more efficient to act there.
That said, i don't think it will be a problem for the stuff i do anytime
soon. Lead solder might even get cheaper for a few years as it is replaced
industrially.
It's not bad that the tin stuff has a higher melting point, this way i'm
sure it does not melt when i try to fuse the legend onto it.
ST
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 09:41:04 +0100, Alan King <alan@...> wrote:
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> The article I hit last week on it mentioning the military's
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> unpreparedness for no-lead future said that the only thing that reliably
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> stops tincicles is at least somewhere from 1-3% lead. Within the
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> industry article, so while I didn't go looking for contradiction for it,
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> I'd expect they'd probably know something about it since everyone's
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> looking for the lead free cure. So more specifically lead, which won't
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> be around for some of the people shortly. Can't remember if it was 2006
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> or 2008 they said EU was to be lead free.. Sneak a fishing weight into
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> your solder bath and out pace your competition.
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> Also amazing how many of the dead satellites that they've worked out
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> after the fact died from it. Direct TV 3 and like 5 or 6 of the other
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> failures just in the last 5 years or so.
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> Alan