Re: Elecraft Digest, Vol 18, Issue 22

[g3ymc]

On 21 Oct 2005 at 4:01, [hidden email] wrote:

> I am about to start building and Elecraft kit and note that lead free
> solder is NOT recommended. In the UK it is virtually all lead free,
> does anyone have any experience of using it?
>
> 73's Tom - G4IDL

There seems to be a myth that leaded solder is no longer available.
All of my suppliers (CPC, Farnell, SEME, Chas Hyde and others) still
stock it with no indication they are going to stop stocking it in the
foreseeable future. I have yet to encounter any equipment soldered
with leadfree in my servicing business although I guess some of the
newer stuff does. Plenty of reels of leaded solder in my stock
cupboard and I have not seen yet any need to buy any lead free yet at
four times the price.

Leadfree cynic..

73 Dave G3YMC

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[Nick Waterman]

Dave Sergeant wrote:
> There seems to be a myth that leaded solder is no longer available.
> All of my suppliers [in the UK] still stock it with no indication
> they are going to stop [...]. I have yet to encounter any equipment
> soldered with leadfree in my servicing business

Is your servicing business covered by UK law? Are your suppliers? The
clock is ticking...

   http://www.rohsdirective.com/timescale.htm

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[Nick Waterman]

Nick Waterman wrote:
> Is your servicing business covered by UK law? Are your suppliers? The
> clock is ticking...
>
>   http://www.rohsdirective.com/timescale.htm

In fact, I believe this supplier is one of the ones you listed. Here's a
page with a real ticking clock!
   http://www.rohs.info/

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[g3ymc]

On 22 Oct 2005 at 9:53, Nick Waterman wrote:

> Nick Waterman wrote:
> > Is your servicing business covered by UK law? Are your suppliers?
> > The clock is ticking...
> >
> >   http://www.rohsdirective.com/timescale.htm
>
> In fact, I believe this supplier is one of the ones you listed. Here's
> a page with a real ticking clock!
>    http://www.rohs.info/

If you read that site you will find that equipment put on the market
before July next year and rework of that equipment is exempt from the
legislation. There is some suggestion that lead free solder can be
used for repair of older equipment, but there is confusion on this
point. The vast majority of service work I do will be on equipment in
this category.

The list of exemptions seems to be growing longer by the day. It may
well be that by next year virtually everything will be exempt....

And to answer the original question, it is certainly OK to solder
Elecraft kits bought before next July with common 60/40 lead/tin
solder.

Sorry for the off thread posting.

73 Dave G3YMC

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[Dan Barker]

I wonder if the boards themselves are tinned with lead? Then, the Aptos boys
might have to do something before next year to be legal for British resale.

Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456

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[Nigel A. Gunn G8IFF/KC8NHF]

It's not the British... It's European legislation being forced upon us
and as the US seems to be going that way as well,
it'll be a requirement worldwide.

Dan Barker wrote:

> legal for British resale.
>
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