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Re:All about whiteboard markers by jacobolus on Friday November 10, 2017 @09:04PM (#15674589)
Leaded solder is actually generally better for your health (just don’t eat it). The unleaded stuff has really nasty flux, and requires much higher temperatures, meaning the fumes are quite a bit worse. Make sure you have very good ventilation when working with unleaded solder.
Re:All about whiteboard markers by analog31 on Friday November 10, 2017 @10:11PM (#15674797)
Completely as an aside to the thread, if you're doing this a lot, try Kester K100 alloy, which is much lower melting than the first generation Pb-free, and behaves a lot more nicely. Not like genuine PbSn, but closer. Techni-Tool has spools of it in different diameters.