Steve, In preparing a report on converting to lead-free for Management and Engineering I came across a document on the environmental hazards of Lead-Free solders. Go to http://www.leadfree.org/files/LF_3-4.pdf. It makes interesting reading. How long will it be before someone catches on and bans some of the Lead-Free alloys? Phil Nutting -----Original Message----- From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Steve Gregory Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 8:21 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [TN] Lead-free, and not lead-free... Hi All! I've got a problem that I've been worrying about all weekend. It may come to pass that we will be building both lead-free, and standard 63/37 stuff...whoa is me. I'm interested in stories from those that have done that...what the hell did you do? Is this something that can be done? It probably can, but me, being the pessimistic sort, thinks that you're just asking for trouble when you try to mix the two... -Steve Gregory --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8e To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-615-7100 ext.2815 ----------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8e To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-615-7100 ext.2815 -----------------------------------------------------