[time-nuts] Ha! It LIVES!!

[Bruce Lane]

	And if I find any, in equipment that I buy, they get touched up with regular tin-lead-silver solder! I'm not about to have any test gear I own subject to failure, based on the silly whim of some offshore agency.


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On 15-Jan-07 at 12:04 Chuck Harris wrote:

>You will be seeing many more suspicious and bad solder joints thanks
>to RoHS and the adoption of lead free solders.  Even really good RoHS
>solder joints look bad.
>
>-Chuck Harris
>
>Jason Rabel wrote:
>> Bruce,
>> 
>> Inspiring story! I have seen some nasty cold-solder joints too in
>commercial
>> equipment, makes you wonder how it ever functioned in the first place.
>> 
>> On a similar note, hopefully I'll have a happy ending too with my
>> Brooks-Shera GPS controller. Right now I can not get it to lock, despite
>> manually adjusting my OCXO dead on another reference. I might end up
>posting
>> some help later on today, maybe some of you guru's can give me some
>> trouble-shooting tips, I think I've bugged Brooks enough for a while. ;)
>> 
>> Jason
>
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