[TheForge] Re: Kids in The Shop

[Mike Spencer]

> Read the label first, many of the current lead free ones contain  
> antimony.

I bought some Kester consumer-marketed "lead-free" solder but then
noticed that it didn't have composition on the label.  I found someone
at Kester who would respond to email and he replied with a mea culpa,
an assertion that they were goinf to fix the labeling Real Soon Now
and the composition:

     97%Sn,  2%Cu,  0.8%Sb,  0.2%Ag

Probably fine on cookware for non-acid food and low working temps.  Not
for pickle-boiling kettles or fuming off with a high-temp torch.


- Mike

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