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

[J Forster]

Tin whiskers and "purple plague" are different things:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_plague


-John

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Glen Zook wrote:

> No, you have to chew the baseboards in a house that was painted with lead based paint and then swallow to get lead poisoning.
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> Whiskers have been problematic for decades.  At the Collins Radio plant here in Richardson, Texas, they were very common on the earlier thin film circuits and were usually purple in color.  As such, they were called the "purple plague".
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> Glen, K9STH