"Phil Allison" wrote in message
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"mike the moron "

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

Arent't there some legal issues with that?


**You tell us - ****head

But round here = Australia where the RoHS directive is not law.

Nor is it law in Japan, North America and most places.

And I would not give a **** if it was.


Since RoHS, the WEEE directive has passed into law meaning that scrap
electronics are not permitted in landfill and have to be shredded for
recovery of recycleable materials, in theory this means that lead, Cd or
anything else is irrelevant.

In practice, lead free solder reliability issues result in such huge volumes
of scrap that it gets dumped on third world countries for slum dwellers to
pick over for recoverable metals.