But, hbiss, don't the fumes contain lead? I thought that's what the whole fuss over soldering was these days, and why they are coming out with lead-free solder.

You don't heat it enough to vaporize it. The fuss is to keep lead out of landfills and the environment when electronic devices are discarded. The "fuss" is not because of this country by the way, ROHS is a European program but because we manufacture for the world market we have to comply with it.


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