Hi Chris, Gordon, David, , , IPC LF Listservers, Chris I think I understand your note, yet I don't know why DTI has given this position. <When we have raised this point with the DTi there is no mandatory requirement to repair RoHS compliant product with RoHS compliant materials. < However you need to consider your own scenarios and also consider the WEEE directive, one aim of which, maybe indirect, is to keep product out of the waste stream for as long as possible.> Since "Put on the Market" is used as a phrase in the legislation and products, sub systems, and systems will be labelled as Lead Free or NOT how do you take a Lead Free labelled system and make it a mixture of non LF components. Repairing a SnPb product with SnPb I understand. Let's take a Clothes Washing Machine (in the US we call it that) and make it a Lead Free machine. Then a service man/oman comes and repairs it with a fully leaded Motor or a SnPb Control Unit. The machine is top labelled or thought by the consumer and the recycling facility to be lead free so when it is trashed it is trashed as Lead Free. As you can see this makes no common sense unless they are instructed to disfigure any LF labeling or dating. Yours in Engineering, Dave Y i Engr, MA/NY DDave -------------------------------------------------------------------------------Leadfee Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Leadfree To temporarily stop/(start) delivery of Leadree for vacation breaks send: SET Leadfree NOMAIL/(MAIL) Search previous postings at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-615-7100 ext.2815 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------