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simonineaston wrote: ↑21 Oct 2021, 12:12pm Blast& Balderdash!! I just splashed £19 for the tool & a 40 piece set! That's a difference of several "adult beverages", even by Bristol's craft brewery prices !! Good Spot, dd

Wilhelmus wrote: ↑21 Oct 2021, 2:13pm

DevonDamo wrote: ↑21 Oct 2021, 12:00pm Lidl are selling a crimping tool from next Thursday for £7.99. https://www.lidl.co.uk/p/diy-tools/park ... set/p46734

Lidl's 'Parkside' brand covers the full range from excellent to awful, so I wouldn't have particularly high expectations over this thing, but there's never any drama about returning stuff so it's a risk-free punt.

A word of advice from a qualified radio engineer. Unless you're really worried about the health aspect, avoid lead-free 'solder.' There's no such thing. Solder is an alloy of lead and tin, always has been and always will be. Accept no substitutes.

PhilD28 wrote: ↑21 Oct 2021, 3:41pm

Wilhelmus wrote: ↑21 Oct 2021, 2:13pm

DevonDamo wrote: ↑21 Oct 2021, 12:00pm Lidl are selling a crimping tool from next Thursday for £7.99. https://www.lidl.co.uk/p/diy-tools/park ... set/p46734

Lidl's 'Parkside' brand covers the full range from excellent to awful, so I wouldn't have particularly high expectations over this thing, but there's never any drama about returning stuff so it's a risk-free punt.

A word of advice from a qualified radio engineer. Unless you're really worried about the health aspect, avoid lead-free 'solder.' There's no such thing. Solder is an alloy of lead and tin, always has been and always will be. Accept no substitutes.

I'm not sure what you are saying here, are you implying that "lead free solder" contains lead?

Jdsk wrote: ↑21 Oct 2021, 3:57pm

PhilD28 wrote: ↑21 Oct 2021, 3:41pm

Wilhelmus wrote: ↑21 Oct 2021, 2:13pm A word of advice from a qualified radio engineer. Unless you're really worried about the health aspect, avoid lead-free 'solder.' There's no such thing. Solder is an alloy of lead and tin, always has been and always will be. Accept no substitutes.

I'm not sure what you are saying here, are you implying that "lead free solder" contains lead?

That's what I guessed on first reading. But now I think that it means that it isn't "proper" solder...

Jonathan

Wilhelmus wrote: ↑21 Oct 2021, 4:45pm I wasn't suggesting that lead-free solder contains lead. I don't know what it does contain as a substitute for lead, and I'm unlikely ever to find out, because I won't be using it. I spent most of my life drinking water supplied through lead pipes, not just copper pipes joined with lead solder, and I'm still here and fighting fit. All this health and safety stuff is nonsense, in my opinion. The evidence connecting ill-health with lead, whether in solder, paint or petrol, was far from conclusive. They'd be better investigating the health effects of mobile phone signals and electricity power lines, but those concerns, much discussed about twenty years ago, seem to have been hushed up. Powerful commercial interests have powerful friends.

Wilhelmus wrote: ↑21 Oct 2021, 6:06pmBefore the invention of the microscope and more advanced instruments, and the classification of elements, was our ancestors' understanding of the world so incomplete?

Sweep wrote: ↑28 Oct 2021, 7:01am I know nothing about the quality, but from today as one of its weekly specials Lidl is doing a crimping tool set.

https://www.lidl.co.uk/p/diy-tools/park ... set/p46734

Would be interested in feedback from anyone who gets in and gets one early, or has bought one before if they've sold it before.

alexnharvey wrote: ↑28 Oct 2021, 9:56am

Sweep wrote: ↑28 Oct 2021, 7:01am I know nothing about the quality, but from today as one of its weekly specials Lidl is doing a crimping tool set.

https://www.lidl.co.uk/p/diy-tools/park ... set/p46734

Would be interested in feedback from anyone who gets in and gets one early, or has bought one before if they've sold it before.

It's really primarily an automatic wire stripper with a very limited crimping function tacked on. If you want a crimper buy a ratcheting crimping tool.