Hi Gregory, John, AIM's David, KEDS-Rich (our fire starter),
IPC LF Listservers,

Greg a good note, yet I only want to focus on one part.

<If the conclusions of the report are valid then, for general assembly, (not
some niche design that for a reason known only to the designers needs a
specific material) why not choose an alloy that uses less silver and is thus
not only less expensive but requires less mining to support it and performs
identical to the higher silver alloys?>

For general assembly where you never expect the end customer to come back
to you for returns or corrective action you can solder with almost anything
in the LF family. This data has been known for a long time.

The problem I saw with this work and it's publicity is that it did not
state that it was for general assembly and milage might vary if one had
reliability goals.

Yours in Engineering, Dave
YiEngr, MA/NY DDave

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