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Davo wrote:

> William Sommerwerck wrote:
> > A few years back I bought a pound roll of fine Ersin multicore. I do so
> > little soldering nowadays that this roll is likely to outlast me, even if I
> > live another 20 years.
> >
> > The flux isn't exposed to air, so the only way it can deteriorate is the
> > normal thermal degradation that any organic substance undergoes. I suspect
> > this occurs very slowly.
> >
> > Again, we turn to the Lady from Philadelphia for advice: "Why don't you just
> > try soldering few test joints and seeing how well the solder works?" Duh.
> >
> > PS: I'm bothered that electronic products increasingly have RoHS labels on
> > the box, and statements that they use non-lead solder. I really /don't/
> > believe that a lot of lead is leaching from waste sites into the water
> > supply, so we aren't likely to see much, if any, reduction in the amount of
> > lead (and lead compounds) in our water supply (is there any hard science on
> > this?), while the reliability of electronic products is likely to decline.
> >
> > I like to say that there is no such thing as a hazardous substance. The
> > hazard occurs from how the substance is used (or misused).
>
> I'm not so sure, here in Western Australia we had hundreds, if not
> thousands of birds literally falling out of the sky from lead poisoning.
> The whole town of Esperance was polluted and had to be cleaned at great
> expense. Lead is still being found in rainwater tanks.
> Lead is a deadly poison that accumulates in the body, it's not excreted.

Where did the lead come from ? I wouldn't mind betting it's natural, as is Radon
gas in Cornwall, UK from decaying isotopes in granite.

Graham