[sdiy] Boycott Mouser and ROHS

[Tim Ressel]

I can tell you here where I work our components have
been switching over for a year now, and I have not
noticed it one bit. The stuff solders just like the
old components. 

I understand your anger, but if you don't embrace new
stuff, you are by definition stuck in the past. This
is a battle I fight in my life every day.

--Tim (geezer) Ressel

--- "R. D. Davis" <rdd at rddavis.org> 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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