Another interesting article on lead free solder by Robert X. Cringely
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2008/pulpit_20080221_004346.html
So, let's see..I'm constantly fixing the wiring on my '66...put in new wire...goes bad....puts in another new wire...goes bad...another new wire...goes bad...
Wire's corrodin..
So, then he says...Musta been a bad batch of wire in '66..????????
It's bad on the shelf, old, bye bye.. Get some that's not 40 years old..
So, the sky is fallin because of lead free..Yah, I'll trust a guy who keeps using 40 year old wire because........ 40 year old wire wasn't working.
And I hate the ROHS edict. Such stupidity..
This guy reminds me of this:
The IT guys here kept replacing a hard drive for me. They would last a coupla months, then kaput..another drive, kaput.
They kept replacing the 4 gig drive with 4 gig drives... So they had to scrounge around for drives as you can't buy them anymore.. The "new 4 gigs kept failing..cause they were all 12 years old..
I told em to put a 60 gig in, their response?...That'd be a waste of capacity, you'll only use 2 gig anyway...
Duh..this sillyness, on a 1.5 million dollar machine..
Cheers, John
