Re:Apple Bought $578M Worth of Sapphire
by noir_lord on Saturday November 09, 2013 @06:58AM
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Not much Pb in modern solders (in fact in the EU you can't add lead to any solder, I think you can have trace amounts if they are "naturally" there).
Modern solder is pretty crappy compared to the stuff I used to work with in the 80's and 90's, it's much trickier to work with, whiskers are more of a problem and I've found (the few times I've used it) that it seems to require more heat.
Modern solder is pretty crappy compared to the stuff I used to work with in the 80's and 90's, it's much trickier to work with, whiskers are more of a problem and I've found (the few times I've used it) that it seems to require more heat.