lead-free solder (was: Setting up a VAXstation)

[Zane H. Healy]

At 11:37 PM +0100 10/1/07, Tony Duell wrote:
>For the first part, I'd offer to do it for you, but it would be illegal
>to do so. Owing to our totally daft laws, (a) I'd have to use lead-free
>solder, which I don't have, don't trust, and am not set up to use and

How hard is it to work with lead-free solder, and is it becoming a 
problem to get traditional solder in the US?  I've been meaning to 
pick up a few rolls.  As I'm still using a roll purchased in the 80's 
from Rat Shack for building a couple things for my VIC-20, I haven't 
been going through it that fast.  Though I seem to be using it more 
often now than.

>(b)
>it has been said that if an enthusiast (specifically a model engineer,
>but it would apply here too) does jobs for others, then his workshop
>becomes a workplace and is covered by all the daft health-and-safety
>rules that I have no desire to get involved with, and which quite
>honestly, would stop me from getting on with things.

Does it count as a job if you don't take payment?

	Zane


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