Chuck Guzis wrote:
  Not hard to get 60Sn/40Pb solder at all.
Here's some from Marlon
 Jones 
 Try that in the UK. 
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.
-tony