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Originally Posted by dtengineering
I'll point out that immediately after saying that "lead free solder bashing is dumb", you go on to point out several reasons why using lead free solder is more difficult than using leaded solder.
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Actually I went into a rant of how solder used to work before the spiffy digital controlled tips. I'm going to guess that only a few people (Al, Ether) nodded and went "I've done that".
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Originally Posted by dtengineering
I agree with all of your reasons why it is easier to learn soldering using leaded solder.
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All the roboteers learned to use un-leaded solder on Saturday. It was a little more of a struggle, but they got it to work. We spent lots of time on keeping the tips clean, keeping the iron hot, keeping it well tinned at all times, etc. I still use leaded solder, but then I have the better part of a case of 1/2lb spools to go through. I bought and used ROHS compliant solder since they will see un-leaded solder in the future.
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Originally Posted by dtengineering
But mostly I'd like to point out that if you have come to the conclusion that "CD is a whinefest of people who can't pull together the right skills" then we have obviously been reading different threads. My experience on CD has been one of meeting lots of people keen to learn, and in turn learning from many very skilled people who take the time to post thoughtful, constructive insights.
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You missed the
in that comment. You've been here a long time, think of topics like Omni vs 6 wheel drive, Who in their right mind would use swerve, Mentors that build, Why Team [insert any world champ winner] should be [praised, hated, loved, followed, has too much money, too many people, karma, unlimited source of Andy/Mark parts or for that matter actually has Andy on their team]. Dozens upon Dozens's of posts, only a few that really add a great deal of value.
Like your post with the PDF on care and feeding of irons. That was good stuff.