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Michael A. Terrell

wrote:

On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:54:58 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:

Even electronics is being forced to get rid of the lead. They're
going to get burned with $1 Billion satellites dying and falling from
the sky due to Tin Whiskers causing shorts on circuit boards, but the
few Rocket Scientists can't out-shout the many Enviro-Nuts.

Aerospace, military and medical applications are exempt from ROHS
lead free solder. They know that it's worthless ****, and that it will
kill people in mission critical applications. It was the idea of idiot
bureaucrats in Brussels with no science to back it up.

Thank Lord for that. That lead-free stuff just does not flow nearly as
well.

OTOH maybe I shall start hoarding just in case.

I'm down to about 5 pounds. I used to use that much a year. Now it's
$30/Lb, and up for decent solder.

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