Thanks for the reply Tony. That is what I wanted to know as I have a lot of regular 60/40 and some 63/37 that ought to last me forever. I also see no need to overheat or burn up my pcb's when using the higher temps with lead free solder.
Cheers,
Dave
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On 10/26/2020 6:52 PM, Tony Smith wrote:
It doesn't really matter what the item is, the lead (or whatever) percentage
is applied to each material used.
So the cable is made of copper, steel, solder, a few different plastics and
each of these needs to have under 0.1% lead. Kinda makes sense when you
think about it, although documenting it would be "fun".
For hobbyist it doesn't matter much what you use. Lead-free solders seem to
have improved, I was at my soldering something at a friend house and only
after I'd finished I noticed the solder was lead free. I think, like many
things, the "lead free is terrible!!" rantings and raving are from people
just repeating what they've read on the internet.
Pretty sure it was this stuff:
, tin
with 0.7% copper. Whatever it was, it worked like normal lead-free, I'm
sure there are alloys that are terrible.
That said, I use lead free because I've still got heaps of it left. And
besides, why switch when it's still cheaper:
Tony
