Lead solder is not yet banned in the US. But it is banned in almost all the world. The US is not the biggest user of solder and few companies want to make a US-only product so we get what is available on the world market. But you can still find lead solder. But I've 100% moved on. The best stuff is silver based now. Use that.
The reason they have banned lead is that EVERY electronic device eventually ends up in a land fill. The lead then leaches into the water table. Sounds silly that tiny phone might contaminate an entire aquifer but Apple sells something like five million phones every month and now that the market is started this means 5 million phones go into landfills every month. Or another way to think of this is that EVERY pound of lead solder manufactured eventually goes to a land fill. Lead is mostly not to harmful to older adults but has a serious effect on babies and children and the effects of exposure can't be removed, the effects are permanent. They passed a law years ago in China that ALL phones must use USB chargers with a standardized USB-A connector. Notice that the entire world is now following China's charger regulations. The effect is millions of tons fewer used chargers in landfills. Now that chargers are standardized people keep them. China got that one right. About freight for stuff on eBay. Most of what I buy there is with free shipping. The free shipping is mostly from items shipped from China as postage is very low there. On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 6:50 AM Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sunday 24 February 2019 09:28:26 Nicklas Karlsson wrote: > > > Anyone in Sweden have experience buying no clean solder flux? > > > > Last time I succeeded but this time only reseller I know about Elfa I > > failed registration form. I tried Ebay a few months ago but never > > received and now there is only a little bit left. Companies outside > > Sweden send by air freight and refuse to sell it. I tried only other > > local store I know about once but got sparc between pins so this is no > > good stuff. > > > I've noted a general lack of availability of decent rosin cored solders > here too. The anti lead folks are getting laws passed by people who have > no knowledge of the technology involved. So called lead free, is mostly > tin, and tin grows whiskers that short to adjacent connections. So the > last time I saw 3% silver but otherwise eutectic solder for sale I > stocked up what I thought was a lifetime supply, but I'm beginning to > worry I may run out while I am still sucking air. Expect to pay north of > $100 a pound for good stuff. And it may be completely under the table > stuff in another 10 years, Stock up when you get a chance. > > > > Nicklas Karlsson > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
