That’s unfair! How can that be? All the shops cite an EU regulation as the reason.
They are pulling your leg – standard thing to blame regs 
Probably it is a matter of what is B2B… hard to define.
Airborne_Again wrote:
Can you still get leaded solder?
RS has pages and pages of the stuff. I generally use lead-free though, I’ve been hand soldering with lead free for years now without any issues. The good lead free stuff is expensive, but a 250g reel lasts years unless you’re doing several boards a day.
I did try to buy some 60/40 solder paste from Farnell a year or two ago and they cancelled my order (“trade accounts only” – which I could set up given we have a VAT registered company but I just don’t buy that much stuff from Farnell to be worth the hassle of setting up, and so just bought the same stuff off an ebay store instead!)
Just now I had a tub of flux arrive from RS, the MSDS that came with it I think weighs more than the tub of flux!
