• @[email protected]
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    -91 year ago

    Not thrilled that it is a lead alloy. Just when we are starting to get rid of all the lead in our communities, this would put it back as part of critical infrastructure everywhere…

    • @thepianistfroggollum
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      191 year ago

      You probably shouldn’t look up what most solder is made with, then.

      Lead never went away, and it never will. It just stopped being put in things like gas and paint.

      • @[email protected]
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        101 year ago

        Leas-free solder is now the standard due to RoHS, at least in Europe. It doesn’t stick as well as Pb-Sn solder though, annoyingly.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          The transition to lead free solder (and lack of experience using it) led to the XBox 360 red ring of death issues, Playstation 3 yellow light of death, and nVidia 8000 series no video failures.

          And indeed the transition happened a long time ago.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        Leas-free solder is now the standard due to RoHS, at least in Europe. It doesn’t stick as well as Pb-Sn solder though, annoyingly.

    • @[email protected]
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      111 year ago

      As others have mentioned lead is still everywhere. All our combustion car batteries are still lead/acid batteries, but if what /u/[email protected] mentioned the paper claims is true, the method for inducing superconductivity in the metal could possibly be used to create other lead free ones.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        Those are increasingly lead free to my knowledge. I’m not sure exactly how free, and it does vary by location and business.

      • @[email protected]
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        01 year ago

        I haven’t seen a lead wheel weight in the US in years. They’re illegal in California, maybe other states too.