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Unread 06-12-2018, 08:30 AM   #1
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Originally Posted by Curss View Post
Do people still use tin/lead solder?
Of course! Every plummer needs something for repairing copper pipes; and in electronic/electric repair; and in gunsmithing.
Tin/lead is the choice -f you have some left;.

Lead is frowned on now and has been replaced with another low melting metal and the solder does not work as well as a result. JMHO.

But in the "Dutch" case we are talking about more than 70 years ago so it was the soft solder that was available.
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