Brian,
Thank you for the larger perspective.
>
>  Just to step the argument up a little more: are you sure that there is no
CFC-113 used
>  for defluxing in the USA and Europe? I'm not only not sure, on the
contrary,
> I'm sure  there are still thousands of tonnes being used per year, from
three sources:
>  - legitimately stockpiled quantities
>  - legitimately recycled solvent
>  - illegal imports, mainly from Art. 5(1) countries but also from some
developed ones.

Sure there are.  A few of my clients still use trike, but its because they
brought in tanker cars of the stuff in 95 and because their military clients
made it next to impossible to use anything else.  They do recognize that they
need to change and have investigated many different alternative cleaners,
most of which are superior cleaners, compared to trike.
>
>  Furthermore, there are OD solvents which are not in the annexes of the MP,
> hence may be used legitimately.
>
>  No, Doug, those of us at the sharp end of the problem are tearing our hair
 out (haven't
>  much left, anyway!) trying to find the solutions to solve all these
problems.  If the
>  writer of the first post in this thread is in a developing nation, he may
contact me
>  personally if he needs real assistance or even if he is in a developed
country. I'll
>  put him in contact with the right guy to help him find a real and
practical answer for
>  the conditions he is in, if he cannot do it for himself. (I'm doing this
kind of thing
>  for 50% of my time). Absolute confidentiality is assured.

Well, I guess I am on the sharp end of the stick as well, since I have
counseled clients in India, the Pacific Rim, Europe, and the Middle East.  My
point is that you can setup a non-ODS cleaning process just as economically
as you can an ODS-based system.  It need not cost a fortune nor does it
necessarily require a huge capital investment.  The biggest problem I have is
with people who think that a little isopropanol and a toothbrush works fine,
when all this really does is re-distribute the residues.

Doug.

P.S.  How is Cyprus these days?

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