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WangoTango

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Phil Allison wrote:
"Charles"
Has this had any impact on repair and rework of electronic devices and
equipment?

** The amount of work has increased.

Pb free solder is often brittle and cracks easily under thermal cycling,
stress or vibrations.

Standard procedure round here is to remove it with wick and use some real
60/40 Savbit solder to make the repair.

.... Phil

Arent't there some legal issues with that?

Depends on where you are and if the device is yours or not.
Here in the US we can use real solder that really works, so no issue.
If you live where lead free is a commercial reality, who is going to
know if you use good old 60/40 (63/37) to fix your own stuff?
I've reworked many lead free boards with lead solder, and we use 100's
of thousands of ROHS parts with good old 63/37.