Thanks Ian, I'm a bit confused by your response though. It's starts by saying 60/40 on lead free is dodgy, and ends by saying you had few problems when using it.
George H.
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lead free solder
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60/40 on lead free is dodgy, PbF is dodgey, PbF on PbF is dodgey, SAC on PbF is dodgey, you do your own thing with fingers crossed and monitor for bouncers over the next few years.
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AFAIK: there's wheelers & dealers brokering brand names.
Bush wasn't the Rolls Royce of consumer electronics, but it was a well respected brand. Its now one of quite a few badges that get stuck on very cheap & very nasty Vestel equipment like the one I found.
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They do seem to be getting better at lead free - at one point, the bulk of TVs going to landfill increased five-fold because of dodgy soldering. They are gradually getting that figure down a bit.
Apart from the fact that manufacturing was taking lead out of the environment and binding into a relatively stable alloy - what difference is RoHS going to make with rain and hail lashed lead roofs running into the water table. There's been about 100 yrs of the landed gentry peppering agricultural land with lead shot. They're most unlikely to have got all the lead pipes that were used upto the 50s - in the UK; they're still discovering Roman lead water ducting.
The other side of the coin was lead in petrol - the petrochemical industry lead procurement was in tons, and the number had a lot of noughts on the end. That lead was being pumped in the air as particulates for us all to breathe.