so it's quicker to use and less challenging to work than lead free solder. However, it's toxic and bad for the environment.

Lead-free solder alloys have been around for as long as people have done soldering, with sources dating back about 5,000 years. Most of these alloys were combinations like copper-silver or silver ...

And here we’ve been complaining about Flat Pack No-Lead ... wire on a DIP breakout board. [Jason] used epoxy to glue the wafer down before grabbing his iron. It took 90 minutes to solder the ...