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

[cheater cheater]

> this email is very informative!!!
>
> thanks Eric at  metasonix!!
>
>
> here it is:
>
>  You are being misinformed by a lot of fools.

Charming.
No surprise nobody bothered replying.  Can't have a constructive
discussion that starts this way.

D.

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Dan Snazelle <subjectivity at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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.
>
>  --
>
>
>
>  E. A. Barbour
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