[sdiy] Info on using vactrols with exemption in EU from metasonix

[Dan Snazelle]

this email is very informative!!!

thanks Eric at  metasonix!!


here it is:

 You are being misinformed by a lot of fools.

 If you need the exemption, you take it yourself, and include a
 preprinted ROHS certificate in every package sent to Europe. Just claim
 that your products are "meant to expand the capacity of and/or upgrade"
 older equipment, since your products are for use as additions to a
 "professional recording studio", which qualifies them as "upgrades".

 This is the exemption I take :

 "METASONIX takes the exemption provided in Section 7 of the Annex of the
 European Union’s Restriction on the Use of Hazardous Substances in
 Electrical and Electronic Equipment (“RoHS”) Directive, 2002/95/EC:

 --replacement components that expand the capacity of and/or upgrade of
 EEE placed on the market before 1 July 2006.

 --Lead in glass of cathode ray tubes, electronic components and
 fluorescent tubes."


 Given the small quantities you are making, you DO NOT have to worry
 about ROHS. It was intended to keep consumer products containing lead
 and cadmium out of the waste stream, and IS NOT intended to control
 sales or shipments of specialized, low-production music equipment. The
 ROHS law is full of long lists of exemptions for things like military
 electronics, commercial communications equipment, and many other
 specialist products. There are several more you could probably take,
 besides the ones I use.

 I'm still using lead solder, as well as plenty of Vactrols, and have
 never had the slightest problem shipping to Europe--and btw, I think
 Analogue Systems is also taking the same exemption, and still uses lead
 solder. Lead-free solder has a lot of disadvantages.

 Feel free to post this to DIY or elsewhere. And stop worrying.

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 E. A. Barbour
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