[sdiy] Boycott Mouser and ROHS

[Seb Francis]

No wanting to reopen the circular RoHS discussions again  ... but this 
is the biggest load of rubbish I've read for a while .. you will have 
absolutely no problem using RoHS components in a lead-soldered PCB.

(It is best however to stick to lead based solder when re-working leaded 
PCBs)

Seb



R. D. Davis wrote:
> After finding what appeared, at first, to be a suitable replacement
> part for my Juno-60, 10uF non-polarized capacitor, on Mouser's web
> site, I saw that it was one of those blasted ROHS compliant parts with
> leads containing no, or practially no, lead.  Upon teleponing Mouser,
> and then being connected to a management droid to complain about them
> being trators to their own country by complying with that ROHS idiocy
> from the EU, and telling them that we in the US, not Europe, and
> there's no need for Americans (well, except for Californians and ?) to
> have to comply with whatever the EU decides, I was told that they're
> doing what's good for the environment and can't discuss the matter.
> She didn't care that we have equipment to repair that needs the parts
> with leaded leads.  Just as she was about to hang up on me, I told her
> that Mouser was a traitor to the American people and that people like
> them ought to be run out of this country (I should ahve added "with
> sharp pitchforks") for siding with the EU over the needs of Americans
> who need to repair older equipment.  Of course, it's not only
> Americans who are being harmed by this ROHS nonsense; many sensible
> Europeans and people in the U.K,, etc., who like to repair their older
> equipment, are being harmed by it as well.
>
> Anyway, that's the last product that I'll attempt to order from
> Mouser.  Let's all do something good for the environment and promptly
> put any catalogs they send us out for recycling!  Of course, I dount
> that they care about any individuals or small businesses boycotting
> them.
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