Jim Yanik wrote in message
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"N_Cook" wrote in
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Japan passed the Electric Appliance Recycling Law, April 2001, does
that set the earliest date possible ?

eg
http://www.japanfs.org/en/pages/011541.html
"The soldering on every aspect of Sony's DCR-TRV 30 digital camcorder,
released in March 2001, is 99.7% lead-free, including all supplied
accessories. "

presumably only one production line and stocking regime, so for both
export and domestic use

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Diverse Devices, Southampton, England
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Have manufacturers standardized the lead-free solder used?
Is there a common lead-free repair solder?
How does one determine what type of LF solder to be used?

Yikes,what a mess.....

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Jim Yanik
jyanik
at
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Where the box has a green RoHS sticker or PbF on the board overlay I use
silver solder, with nothing sofar come bouncing back with an incompatibility
issue, but early days yet. Bit more expensive but , in terms of time,
scrapping off the tin of RoHS compliant components , for tinpest compliance,
is more expensive.



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Diverse Devices, Southampton, England
electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on
http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/