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Hello, advice on my lab, and what solder to buy please
not1xor1:
--- Quote from: Jwillis on January 01, 2020, 12:48:12 am ---Although I should only speak for myself but many of us here grew up with lead painted toys ,mercury thermometers, lawn darts ,peanuts,and gluten. Look how many of us survived. It's astounding. We now live in a society of obsessive compulsive neurotics and Eviro-Nazis that presume to live forever in a Utopian world. Good luck with that .Some of these people need more counselling than I do.
Most legislation is base less on facts and more on probable re-election. Case in point is California .Apparently everything will cause cancer.
With reasonable use and proper ventilation, lead solder is just as safe to use now as it was before. If by chance someone does decide to chew on a electronic board they'll most likely die from electrical shock before the lead has any effect.Either case ,chalk one more up for Darwins Law.
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The main and most dangerous source of lead was tetraethyl lead.
Most restriction on usage of heavy metals are right and based on solid scientific reasons.
The problem is that politicians usually are more sensible to the interests of powerful lobbies than to science facts (and in most cases they have absolutely no understanding of that matter).
Here in Italy, hunters are still around 7-800 000 (they used to be more than 1 700 000 forty years ago). Most of them are organized in associations and supported by rich manufacturers of weapons, specialized garment and gadgets and unfortunately they have the right to vote.
With the new politicians arising in the continent (it looks like a remake of the Dumb and Dumber movie or Idiocracy) they are likely to go on with their right to pollute for a while longer and more than ever.
magic:
--- Quote from: tooki on December 31, 2019, 07:10:39 pm ---And that's after the 1998 and 2012 restrictions on using lead shot for waterfowl.
And despite that, the entire electronics industry had to give up lead? Absurd. Talk about not going for the low-hanging fruit first...
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It's also after REACH and RoHS. They have gone after the low hanging fruit first :-DD
sokoloff:
--- Quote from: not1xor1 on January 01, 2020, 06:34:29 am ---The main and most dangerous source of lead was tetraethyl lead.
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That's why I'm so looking forward to a viable drop-in replacement fuel for 100LL for aviation piston engines.
tooki:
--- Quote from: magic on January 01, 2020, 08:40:44 am ---
--- Quote from: tooki on December 31, 2019, 07:10:39 pm ---And that's after the 1998 and 2012 restrictions on using lead shot for waterfowl.
And despite that, the entire electronics industry had to give up lead? Absurd. Talk about not going for the low-hanging fruit first...
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It's also after REACH and RoHS. They have gone after the low hanging fruit first :-DD
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My point was that the trivial amounts of lead in electronics solder is not the low-hanging fruit. That would be the much, much larger amounts of lead in ammunition and gasoline (which in many countries still has lead in aviation fuel, even if it was eliminated from automobile fuel).
Car batteries also contain huge amounts of lead, but since the recycling rate on car batteries is very high, little of that ends up in the environment.
HobGoblyn:
I’ve now ordered everything recommended in this thread:)
Looking forwards it all turning up. I got all 4 of the tools tooki linked to on Reichet’s site, I also ordered the flux and crispers mariush linked to.
Also got most of the other bits and pieces (still have a few test leads to get)
So far my only slight annoyance is that one vid I watched suggested getting an 0805 sample book, I found the following on eBay
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/0805-Practical-SMD-1-Resistor-And-Capacitor-Kits-Pack-Box-Component-Sample-Book/312614474728?hash=item48c94653e8:g:aIkAAOSwnktc3nds
And stupidly didn’t read the description properly. It only contained resistors. I contacted the guy and said I’m happy to keep it, but he should take the word capacitor out of the title, but his response was that the actual description was clear. Personally, as there’s only one book to buy (it’s not a listing with different book choices) , I disagree, but life’s too short to worry, will hunt eBay for a few cheap 0805 caps.
Thanks everyone for all the advice
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