4 Jun
2006
4 Jun
'06
9:51 a.m.
On 6/4/06, Gooijen, Henk <henk.gooijen at oce.com> wrote:
For repair of non-RoHS complint equipment, it is still
allowed to use the
"old" parts. The RoHS rule only applies to new-built equipment.
As a hobbyist you must make sure that you do not mix RoHS and non-RoHS parts
because the technique and the material to solder these parts are different.
Well... 1/8W RoHS resistors and decoupling caps can't cost that much,
and presumably the new "solder" will still wick to gold, so one could
still use old gold-plated machine-pin sockets, yes?
I don't know about anyone else, but _I_ socketed 100% of the ICs on my
SBC-6120. Given the cost of the blank PCB, I didn't think that a few
$$$ more for sockets was a burden.
-ethan