On Mon, 06 Dec 2010 19:29:04 -0600, "
wrote:

I said in the beginning you will often get away with it, but it is
not the "recommended" way, it is not "best practice" and in some cases
it WILL bite you.

The subject was repair, Clueless Clare.

The subject still IS repair.

If you are replacing a component with an RoHS compliant component that
is NOT tin plated, you MAY run into the problems noted.

In your case you have double checked and all your components are tin
coated leads, so for you it will work.
Some components are NOT tin coated, and those can cause problems.

Exceedingly rare (never saw one). Some are gold flashed, which is peachy,
too.

Everyone on the list is aware of it now , and knows your opinion.
They also now know that there CAN be issues - so they can do as they
like, and take their chances in situations where they are not sure of
the coating if they want to.

They also know you as Clueless Clare.

I've been called worse.
And you get called a LOT worse by your customers when you screw up a
"simple" repair.