Another Industry Bites The Dust

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Jccarlton
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Another Industry Bites The Dust

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I keep asking myself, what critical industry shutdown by regs and taxes will be the tipping point, the industry that brings it all down around our ears.:
http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2013 ... a-closing/

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Spam reported.
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This will definitely make bullets more expensive. Anyone have a good lead on a plasma rifle? :wink: Any thoughts on terminal ballistics for steel shot embedded in plastic?

The electronics industry has already moved to mostly lead free operation based on lead paranoia, despite the new solders not being as good as lead-tin eutectic.
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hanelyp wrote:This will definitely make bullets more expensive. Anyone have a good lead on a plasma rifle? :wink: Any thoughts on terminal ballistics for steel shot embedded in plastic?

The electronics industry has already moved to mostly lead free operation based on lead paranoia, despite the new solders not being as good as lead-tin eutectic.
ROHS is a dirty word. BTDT.

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Schneibster wrote:Spam reported.
And reporting news is spam? You have a very novel interpretation.
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What is BTDT?
Engineering is the art of making what you want from what you can get at a profit.

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ROHS has made electronics less reliable and manufacturing more expensive. The military - when it can - prefers lead based solders for reliability.

It is much less brittle and the temperature profiles for soldering are much less extreme. And water vapor control of electronic plastics is not required.
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MSimon wrote:
Schneibster wrote:Spam reported.
And reporting news is spam? You have a very novel interpretation.
What news? If they shut down the gun industry that's news. Otherwise it's just more gunpenisnutjob propaganda.
We need a directorate of science, and we need it to be voted on only by scientists. You don't get to vote on reality. Get over it. Elected officials that deny the findings of the Science Directorate are subject to immediate impeachment for incompetence.

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MSimon wrote:What is BTDT?
Been There Done That. ROHS was the major pain at my last job. Not just solder, but everything else.

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Jccarlton wrote:
MSimon wrote:What is BTDT?
Been There Done That. ROHS was the major pain at my last job. Not just solder, but everything else.
Feel free to eat all the lead you want at home. The rest of us prefer not to go slowly insane from brain damage. Sorry if we have to lock you up later.
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hanelyp wrote:This will definitely make bullets more expensive. Anyone have a good lead on a plasma rifle? :wink: Any thoughts on terminal ballistics for steel shot embedded in plastic?

The electronics industry has already moved to mostly lead free operation based on lead paranoia, despite the new solders not being as good as lead-tin eutectic.
Cost of lead-acid batteries will be going up, too.
When opinion and reality conflict - guess which one is going to win in the long run.

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hanelyp wrote:Anyone have a good lead on a plasma rifle?
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2007/04 ... _pulse_la/
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Re: Another Industry Bites The Dust

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See, the problem with lead in the solder is when you throw the electronics away.

Did I actually hear someone claim lead doesn't cause brain damage?

Really?

Seriously?

I mean, I know you guys are anti-science, but that's unusually stupid even for you.
We need a directorate of science, and we need it to be voted on only by scientists. You don't get to vote on reality. Get over it. Elected officials that deny the findings of the Science Directorate are subject to immediate impeachment for incompetence.

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