4 Jun
2007
4 Jun
'07
7:30 p.m.
Mr Ian Primus wrote:
I think part of the problem is that the lead-free solders have
practically different thermal characteristics, but a lot of places
aren't taking that into account with their soldering-equipment budget.
Peace... Sridhar
I recently
purchased some diagnostic circuit boards
and they are terrible, I am
seriously considering getting a rework station and
removing all the non lead
based solder and re soldering them with good old
fashioned lead based solder,
the soldier joints are horrible and there is some
odd contamination (perhaps
some different flux they have to use with it) that
comes to the surface when you
re solder the existing solder joints (black flecks)
I contacted the dealer i
got them from and they told me that was normal for
the lead-free solder that
they use now 0.o
Hehe, yeah. That lead free solder is a load of crap.
Neat idea, just too bad it doesn't actually work very
well. The lead was in there for a reason...