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Default First appearance of lead-free solder inside electronic equipment in Europe?

Arfa Daily wrote in message
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"N_Cook" wrote in message
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Another label to watch out for.
A sticker in the manner of road traffic prohibition sign stuck to the

pcb.
Circle with a diagonal bar and letters P and b either side.
On today's latest pbf horror, made in 2007 with solder joints that look
like
they're made by a teenage trainee on his fist day and white dusty finish
that looks as though its been in a garden shed for 10 years


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That's a better description of the symbol I called "slashed out Pb". As

to
your horror of the day, I despair as to what we are stacking up for
ourselves in a few years' time, if this is allowed to go on ...

Arfa



Someone paid 800 GBP for this amp and in 2 years it is self destructing,
tantamount to fraud.

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