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

[cheater cheater]

It's ok. Just keep this in mind for the future Dan. :P

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Dan Snazelle <subjectivity at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> i thought people would want to know
>
> and i didnt think it was correct to edit his message
>
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------
>> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:31:17 +0100
>> Subject: Re: [sdiy] Info on using vactrols with exemption in EU from metasonix
>> From: cheater00 at gmail.com
>> To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
>>
>>> 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  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
>>>> METASONIX
>>>> www.metasonix.com
>>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Synth-diy mailing list
>>> Synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
>>> http://dropmix.xs4all.nl/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy
>>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Synth-diy mailing list
>> Synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
>> http://dropmix.xs4all.nl/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy
>