This is pure and utter codswallop, a word which may be translated into
American as bulls**t. Firstly, "marginally" is relative because LF
contains 50% more tin than conventional and the price of tin is high,
compared with lead; work it out for yourself. Secondly, venting is, as
Joe says, to remove flux fumes (rosins do decompose into minute
quantities of toxic aldehydes). Thirdly, venting is a small capital cost
plus an even smaller consumable whereas solder is a pure consumable.
Without knowing the quantities and costs, it is impossible to equate
them, but it would be an extremely small consumer who would show a
saving as cited.

My advice is to avoid the company who can perpetrate such lies like the
plague, because all they are doing are demonstrating their incompetence.

Brian

Chuck Dolci wrote:
> Question:  Is the following statement about lead-free solder not
> requiring venting, etc.
>  true?
>
> "Tin-silver-copper alloys have been developed as substitutes.  The costs
> of these
> replacement solders are only marginally higher than the lead solders but
> there could be
> savings at the manufacturing end because the new solders will not
> require the venting
> and management for worker and environmental protection which was
> formerly necessary with
> lead solder during production"
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Charles F. Dolci
> Director - Business Continuity and EH&S Programs
> Sun Microsystems, Inc.
>
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