[Boatanchors] SOLDER (the Real Stuff) ((Off topic?))

[K0DAN]

Gee, Duane, how do you REALLY feel?!? (grin)

Not sure I agree with all the predicitions, but get the drift.

The BIG irony would be that, when I go Silent Key (hopefully a long time in the future), my heirs WON'T know what all my solder stash is, and just throw it in the landfill! I doubt the the ROHS regs anticpated that! Long live Ham Radio. 

Of course, I could instruct my heirs to auction off my solder, but I can't mention where they might do that. (Just a joke!)

Wishing you, and all the other list members a happy holiday season, and a peaceful & prosperous 2009. And may our finances be better in 2009 so we can stock up on good-smelling healthy lead solder!

73
Dan
K0DAN
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Duane Fischer, W8DBF 
  To: K0DAN ; boatanchors 
  Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 4:47 PM
  Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] SOLDER (the Real Stuff) ((Off topic?))


  Hey Dan,    
      
  Sell those rolls, or spools, maybe rolled up chunks, of solder now. Do NOT wait! With a new president moving into the White House, Congress doing its annual "borrow from the Medicare and Medicare trust funds" to fake a balanced budget (then never repay any of said loan, just pay interest of the total amount borrowed since they started robbing these funds as far back as the late sixties), the American auto makers needing 25 billion to keep their doors open, the unregulated and out of control postal system raising their rates annually and still losing money due to no accountability to any higher power - so the horrible management continues year after year and the postal system knows we can't do without mail, so Americans will just have to eat less so they can afford stamps to pay their other bills! Better sell now Dan, before you have to trade solder for plastic!    
      
  The Lincoln penny, gone in 2009. Why? It will be 100 years old. Besides, the government wants us to accept and use a dollar coin, no more $.99 items! Eliminate the penny! Then eliminate the printed one dollar bill. Sorry George, those postal officials should spend one Winter in Valley Forge like you and the troops had to do! Bet that would alter their neuron alignment, heh? Definitely give them frostbite on the buns, so then they would have to stand to think!    
      
  If you have some Silver Solder, sell while the price of this prescious metal is up!    
      
  Oh yes, be sure to leave your family a note telling them what solder is! Otherwise they may think it is some kind of 'playdough' type of wire to play with!    

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: K0DAN 
    To: boatanchors 
    Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 12:07 PM
    Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] SOLDER (the Real Stuff) ((Off topic?))


    The solder panic went around several years ago on the reflectors. It casued many of us (me included) to go out and buy a lifetime supply of "real" solder. Now, 2-3 years later, the "real" solder is still readily available, albiet maybe a little more expensive. I will probably never use the 6# I have in stock...when they clear out my estate, watch for several rolls at bargain prices!

    73
    Dan
    K0DAN
      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Jim Wilhite 
      To: boatanchors 
      Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 10:55 AM
      Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] SOLDER (the Real Stuff) ((Off topic?))


      I am not sure lead solder will be totally gone..  Back some years ago after that Rohs crap gained traction with scientists, they built a very expensive satellite with it.  Put it in orbit and it lasted only a few months.   They simulated the satellite and conditions only to ddiscover the tin whiskers of Rohs solder.  I believe from then on they use 60/40 or 60/37 mix.  Maybe the insurance companies that guaranteed the satellite had something to do with raising the premiums.

      Jim/W5JO


      ----- Original Message ----- 



        This reminds me!  I better get another pound of the stuff before the assinine ROHS rules eliminate it completely from the earth.  (there will STILL be lead acid batteries manufactured though!)
        More junk science and pop culture.

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