Mixed Lead-free and Leaded Reliability: A Hot Technical Topic at APEX
Folks, My friend and colleague Jim Hall of ITM pointed out that the reliability of “mixed” (i.e. lead free and leaded solder and fi...
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Tin Pest in Scandinavian Church Organ Pipes
Annika writes: Dear Dr. Ron, I’m a chemist and a PhD student working in the field of atmospheric corrosion of lead and lead-tin alloys in histor...
The Big Show
You’ll be hearing from Team Indium as we report from the floor of APEX – one of our largest exhibitions – this week. We’ve wo...
Super Bowl Pointers ... for a B2B Trade Show???
The USA Today ran an interesting article the other day titled, “SUPER DON’TS“ Here it is in it’s brief entirety: 1) Don’...
Software Systems that Help in Managing the WEEE/RoHS Compliance Process
Folks, If one really thinks about it, management of the entire WEEE/RoHS process(and China RoHS and other stuff to come)is a daunting task. There are ...
B2B Marcom Benchmarking
Recently Anita and I traveled to the North American headquarters of CIBA Specialty Chemicals Corporation to present at their lunch hour Marketing semi...
Chemical Analysis for RoHS
Folks, As the 1 July 2006 date looms closer, some of us will need analysis to support RoHS compliance or even expose counterfeit components. To...
Dr. Ron and Colleagues Launch Online Lead Free Workshop
Folks, My colleagues Kathy Hickey and Amish Parashar of NeoVention and I just launched a lead free online workshop The workshop is managed by span....
China to postpone RoHS legislation until January 1, 2007, but Requirements more Severe than EU
Folks, Tom Perrett of Tin Technology pointed out this recent article by Design Chain Associates. It is “must” reading. The China RoHS law ...
The Silver Lining of WEEE/RoHS
Folks, I think many of us still “groan” when we think of WEEE/RoHS. However, as I have mentioned before, whenever there are radical change...
Who Holds the World Record in Pulling Back a Longbow?
Folks, Faithful reader Don Ballard asks: “Who Holds the World Record in Pulling Back a Longbow? Tell us about him. For more than 50 years the ac...
Dr. Ron Shatters 110# Longbow
Folks, Some time ago I listed my interest in English Longbows. The first bow I got early in 2005, took between 80 and 100 pounds to draw (depending......