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It's lead-free, but the 3% silver - the highest silver content easily available - makes it work properly.
Non-silver lead-free is shit, but this is just as good as leaded in my experience.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
You can get 4% quite easily, eg. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/171596615826
R.
Eqd Speaker Cranker clone
Monte Allums TR-2 Plus mod kit
Trading feedback: http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/60602/
Rift Amplification
Brackley, Northamptonshire
www.riftamps.co.uk
Doesn't make much sense, as I thought that the regulations were intended to stop commercial, large-scale use of lead solder. So you can buy it if you're an electronics manufacturer but not if you're building an amp or pedal for your own use!
Ersin multicore added to the list of items I'm stockpiling in case of no-deal brexit.
I'm using up the last of a largish reel I got from Maplin some time ago which was 4% Ag, 95.5% Sn, and 0.5% Cu, but my latest purchase was 500g of this: http://www.mbouk.co.uk/pdf/lead-free-sn96.pdf which is 3.5% Ag and 96.5 Sn
R.
Eqd Speaker Cranker clone
Monte Allums TR-2 Plus mod kit
Trading feedback: http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/60602/
The problem is not putting lead in solder, it's the lead in solder getting into the environment via landfill dumping. But since all the electronics made from before WWII until a few years ago contain leaded solder, that will continue if old electronics ends up in landfill.
Thus the correct solution is to stop any of it going to landfill at all and make sure it's all recycled properly, in which case having lead in the solder doesn't matter because it will be extracted like all the other valuable metals. But that's more difficult and costly to implement...
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
https://aimsolder.com/products/solder-alloys/sn100c
Last time I bought it from these guys
https://bltcircuitservices.co.uk/
£4.75