I work in the industry here in US. Most work i in aerospace. Luckily most my
ccustomers are well aware of problems with lead-free solders. I'm seeing
more and more of them specificly specifying by contract "No Lead Free
Solder". Even started seeing this from European customers.

What problems are you seeing?

Leonard

"Mark Walter" wrote in message
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I work in the industry here in US. Most work i in aerospace. Luckily most
my
ccustomers are well aware of problems with lead-free solders. I'm seeing
more and more of them specificly specifying by contract "No Lead Free
Solder". Even started seeing this from European customers.

Leonard Caillouet wrote:
What problems are you seeing?

Leonard


If buying an airline ticket, for your piece of mind, specify to the
travel company that you would like to travel by plane with electronics
assembled using _leaded_ solder....

There have been strong objections from aircraft builders, avionics
makers and the military, on reliability/safety issues caused by growing
whiskers of tin shorting out adjacent joints.

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Adrian C

"Adrian C" wrote in message
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Leonard Caillouet wrote:
What problems are you seeing?

Leonard


If buying an airline ticket, for your piece of mind, specify to the travel
company that you would like to travel by plane with electronics assembled
using _leaded_ solder....

There have been strong objections from aircraft builders, avionics makers
and the military, on reliability/safety issues caused by growing whiskers
of tin shorting out adjacent joints.

--
Adrian C

This will not be a problem. The avionics and medical instrument industries
have been exempted from this piece of lunatic legislation.

Arfa

Leonard Caillouet wrote:

What problems are you seeing?

Leonard

"Mark Walter" wrote in message
...
I work in the industry here in US. Most work i in aerospace. Luckily most
my
ccustomers are well aware of problems with lead-free solders. I'm seeing
more and more of them specificly specifying by contract "No Lead Free
Solder". Even started seeing this from European customers.

Tin whiskers is one problem. That is not the biggest one tho. I've seen
reports that none of the (common) lead free solders are as reliable: they
fatigue quicker.
Aerospace is very conservative. Unless there is a compelling reason to
change something, and you can show that it works, don't change it. So I
expect lead solder to be used for quite a while longer (if not forever)

M Walter