And if I find any, in equipment that I buy, they get touched up with regular tin-lead-silver solder! I'm not about to have any test gear I own subject to failure, based on the silly whim of some offshore agency.
*********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 15-Jan-07 at 12:04 Chuck Harris wrote: >You will be seeing many more suspicious and bad solder joints thanks >to RoHS and the adoption of lead free solders. Even really good RoHS >solder joints look bad. > >-Chuck Harris > >Jason Rabel wrote: >> Bruce, >> >> Inspiring story! I have seen some nasty cold-solder joints too in >commercial >> equipment, makes you wonder how it ever functioned in the first place. >> >> On a similar note, hopefully I'll have a happy ending too with my >> Brooks-Shera GPS controller. Right now I can not get it to lock, despite >> manually adjusting my OCXO dead on another reference. I might end up >posting >> some help later on today, maybe some of you guru's can give me some >> trouble-shooting tips, I think I've bugged Brooks enough for a while. ;) >> >> Jason > >_______________________________________________ >time-nuts mailing list >time-nuts@febo.com >https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Bruce Lane, Owner & Head Hardware Heavy, Blue Feather Technologies -- http://www.bluefeathertech.com kyrrin (at) bluefeathertech do/t c=o=m "If Salvador Dali had owned a computer, would it have been equipped with surreal ports?" _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
