lead-free solder

5 Oct 2007

...
   BOth RS (which
is NOT Radio Shack, OK) and Farnell have tin/lead solder
 listed on their websites (I checked earlier this evening) and neither
 seems to say 'avaialble until stocks exhausted'. I don't think there's
 any real problem yet in getting it over here.  
 Maplin have stopped selling it entirely. Look in the latest catalogue
 - it's not in there. 
(It wasn't in the last Maplin catalouge either).

So what? I can name a dozen things that Maplin used to sell, that are 
still made, and that are availale from other UK components suppliers. 
This hardly makes them unavailale.

Maplin have really gone away from the hobbyist electronic market towards 
PC-clone modules, cinsumer electronics, etc. Gone are the days when you 
could go to the enarest Maplin in your lunchbreak to get the bits needed 
for the afternoon's hardware hacking. In fact these days, even if it's in 
the catalogue, there's a good chance it won't be in the shop. Most 
interesting items are 'order only'

Still, RS and Frnell take credit cards. They're prompt about sending and 
have a good range of stuff. 

-tony

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