I also suspect that the eco-fanaticism that has given us lead-free
solder doesn't help either, as the elevated process temperatures
required to get this hateful stuff to stick to anything other than
itself, is known to not do some components a lot of good, and I'm
sure that, no matter how comparitively brief these additional
early-life heat stresses on the electros are, they have to be at
least another potentially destructive factor to consider in terms
of long life and reliability ...

I wonder what's going to happen when these lead-free joints start failing en
masse... I can just see a class-action suit against the European Economic
Community.