What's the story on solder these days?
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 03:43:41 -0700, The Radio Amateur Formerly Known As
G4KFK wrote:
The Magnum wrote:
It's all down to interfering busybodies who demand that anything considered
harmless must be curtailed. Fumes from leaded solder especially in a
confined area can be considered highly toxic and if 'sniffed in' in large
amounts can send you loopy at best and kill you at worst.
Shirley the fumes are from the flux, not the solder?
RoHS is to address heavy metals in post-consumer waste re-entering the
environment via landfill sites.
Which makes it very frustrating that the net aimed at mobile phones
and MP3 players turned into a sieve to encompass low volume long life
items in fixed installations and even church organs....
Steve
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