Need an iron and solder recommendations for some thru hole synth kits. Leaded or lead free for a noob?

  • plinky [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    19 days ago

    easily yeah, lead free is not that bad, but it has higher temperature to deal with and being worse for wetting. personal risk is being a dum-dum about washing hands or getting food stuff involved on the same table, environmental is also like don’t throw it in a trash, and especially when you get better, you won’t have a lot of wasted solder

    if you are doing it in a garage, gentle fan to remove flux fumes from your breathing area is fine, just take breaks to vent it out

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        19 days ago

        but it’s industrial scale where they are clearly bad, like giant basins of melted solder or ball placement thingies, and then in the trash where lead leaches out into environment, lead doesn’t evaporate that easy. in placing stuff on boards it’s probably equal, for copper wires, maybe i just suck but i have to try a lot to get it attached with lead free solder, it cools too quickly (i’m also doing on needs basis every 6 months or so, not a professional or anything)