[GreenKeys] GreenKeys Digest, Vol 106, Issue 66

[John Nagle]

On 11/29/2012 9:00 AM, greenkeys-request at mailman.qth.net wrote:
> Message: 2 Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 10:31:20 -0500 From: "Ralph Mowery"
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> Re: [GreenKeys] Solder Message-ID:
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> Has the price of regular solder gone way up in the last couple of
> years ?
> 
> I used to get it for less than $ 10 per pound.  I did a search today
> and it seems that it is $ 25 to $ 50 per pound now at several
> suppliers. I have Digi-Key up and unless I am missing something
> regular 60/40 Kester is going for those prices.
> 
> If that is correct, then the $ 54 is cheap for 5 pounds.

    Right.  My post was about someone wanting over $700 for a 5-pound
spool of Western Electric solder.

    The most outrageous audiophile product:

"Denon AKDL1 Dedicated Link Cable" - $9,999.00

http://www.amazon.com/Denon-AKDL1-Dedicated-Link-Cable/dp/B000I1X6PM

It's an HDMI cable, which is a completely digital interface.
Other manufacturers make overpriced HDMI cables.  Pear Audio had
a $7000 HDMI cable.  And there are $500 "audiophile" Ethernet
cables.

(The coolest record-playing device belongs to
the Library of Congress.  They now have a machine which does
a 3D scan of a phonograph record, producing an enormous data
file.  That data file is then run through a program which
simulates a stylus traveling the grooves to extract audio.
They can use this process to reassemble cracked and broken
records.  LC is slowly restoring the last existing copies of
early recordings with this.)

    				John Nagle