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Default Lead free solder - exposed in a UK national newspaper

TheM wrote:
"Eeyore" wrote in message ...


N_Cook wrote:


http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...ch.engineering

Within a whisker of failure


About time too.

Never mind the reduced reliability (see the ERA study) caused by lead-free
solder when equipment is exposed to vibration.

Graham



Its good for the way economy works nowadays. Buy, buy, buy the crap
that dies or obsoletes every 2-3 years.

Mark


Absolutely; we are in the replace crap with crap "economy".