[Boatanchors] Solder

[Jim Haynes]

On Sun, 10 May 2015, Pete Lancashire wrote:

> I totally love the folk lure on WECO solder. Only if the audio types knew
> it was salvaged/reclaimed solder by Nassau Smelting and. Refining Company a
> wholly owned division of WE.

I assumed they knew.  The spools I remember seeing around the telephone
office had the Nassau name on them.

>
> My brother worked for Bell Penna and any work on the ESS switches no Nassau
> solder was to be found, it was all "new", the usual brands.
>
Wonder why.  Maybe there was just not much solder coming out of Nassau
with the end of lead-sheathed cables, and with ESS using punchdown
rather than soldered distributing frame connections.  Wasn't the ESS
backplane wire wrapped?  So what did they need to solder?