Re:Because (Score 2, Insightful)

I work in electronics and the major problem, certainly in Europe, electronics manufacturers are having is the ever so thoughtful ban of lead based solder so we have to used crappy lead-free solder which causes greatly inferior solder joints, even on gold-plated boards. Also, for some very very odd reason, after around 18 months, the solder joints begin to somehow grow little spikes and cause pins to short out. Very little research was carried out into how practical lead free solder actually is and it was only implemented because they thought lead solder might leak into the water system, when the lead is in a near-undegradable compound