On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 13:26:58 UTC, Dave Stanton wrote:

: Yes, our company went lead free last year. All flow soldering and hand
: soldering inc my service side has gone that way. TAkes a while to get used
: to lead free solder I found.

I do a lot of soldering work with children. The first reel of lead
free solder I got was dreadful - far too high a melting point. I got
some from Maplins recently, though, as an experiment, which works
fine.

Ian