Lead wheel weights disappeared from Switzerland over 10 years ago, on
the (true) grounds that about 15% of the weights disappeared before they
could ever be recovered (worked loose through shocks, scraped against
kerbs, the clip corroding from salted roads etc.).

As for windows, non-lead channeling has been available for many years,
along with lead-free low-melting point solder, so this is hardly an
issue. However, the stained glass that goes into the channels still
contains lead :-)

Of course bullets should not contain lead. A 9 mm one passing through
the heart or brain may leave residues which could cause lead poisoning!

Brian

Ingemar Hernefjord wrote:
> 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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