They can use depleted uranium :-)

Brian

Phil Nutting wrote:
> And those same bureaucrats will have to pay much more for their fishing
> sinkers.  Oh sorry, they are probably fly fisherman and don't use the
> plebian lead sinkers.
>
> The Mafioso will have to switch from lead sneakers to zinc sneakers.
>
> And what about all those lead keels on sailboats?  Will they have to
> shift to a zinc alloy?  Don't want to kill any little fishies.
>
> Where will it all end?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ingemar Hernefjord
> Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 10:32 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [TN] EU Lead hysteria
>
> Visited my car service man today for shifting from summer to winter
> wheels. He told me something that I don't whether to laugh at or cry.
> The small Lead balance bits which are fitted on the wheel must not be
> made of Lead anymore, the service man has to use a special zinc alloy
> instead. Old packages with some 100 pcs use to cost some 10 dollars, the
> new set costs 250 dollars!  He cried because he has to take that money
> from the customer. The old bits are always removed from scrap wheels,
> gathered in a box and sent regularly to a destruction company, who melts
> the Lead for use as divers belts and other purposes, i.e. they are
> recirculated and are not poisoning the nature. I think they go to far
> those EU bureaucrats..
> Inge
>
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