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Default Lead free solder

On Apr 23, 3:51*am, (Adrian
Tuddenham) wrote:
who where wrote:
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:07:11 -0400, "Charles"
wrote:


Has this had any impact on repair and rework of electronic devices and
equipment?


Of course. *The increased number of failures due solely to solder
joints has kept many a service department busy. *Reworking with
"decent" solder is the simplest treatment.


Not in Europe it isn't. *There are heavy fines for doing that.

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Importing less cheap Chinese electronic garbage would have more
of an impact.