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

[Cynthia Webster]

EXCELLENT! 

(thank you all)

Cynthia


cheater cheater wrote:
>> 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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