Well, then let's just wait for history to show whatever it will show,
it's just the same old cr∗∗ time and time again when some reporter
somewhere happens to stumble about the same old story only he hasn't
heard before.
It's old news, please don't get all worked up by pictures of 30 year
old tin whiskers.
By the way, a few months back i challenged anyone to show pictures of
whiskers shown to grow from _current_ solder joints. That means i'm
NOT interested in pictures NASA shot in the 70's, i'm NOT interested
in pictures Swatch shot of badly plated crystal cases. I want to see
solder joints with whiskers that were made post ROHS taking effect. If
it's such a terrible thing it ought to happen all the time and be easy
to replicate in the lab.
Short story i have never seen a single picture of a whisker growing
out of modern leadfree solder. All the pictures are of tin plated
components (bright tin), and/or made a long time ago with unsuitable
metals when nobody even knew there would be any ROHS.
I challenge _you_ to find that proof as well.
My opinion: A better way to solve the problem might have been to
control where used electronics equipment goes once it fails (NOT
dumping it on the third world), and maybe putting some reasonable
quality requirements on imported goods so they last more than a week.
But, I have not done any research if this would have been a better
way, so i will not shout my mouth off about how stupid the law might
be. I doubt the people who regularly do so here have done that
research, but hey, everyone is entitled to his opinion.
I still strongly resent the choice of wording used for the thread
title, but my objection was made public and i don't really care to
discuss the topic _again_, the archives are full of it...
ST
On 4/6/08, agscal -AGSCalabrese <agscal@...> wrote:
> If the law is stupid, then the people who resisted it are not backwards.
> If the law is stupid, then it is still open to debate and should be
> overturned.
> If the law is stupid, then the people who promoted it resemble retards.
> If the law is stupid, then the thousands of companies that have "no
> problem" must be keeping their mouths shut.
> Whether the law is stupid or not should be based on cost versus
> benefit analysis.
> History is likely to show that ROHS fails to produce more benefits
> than costs.
> AGSC
>