Looks like someone else has been hitting the Mountain Dew pretty hard for a Friday, hehehe.... Mike McMonagle Quality Engineer OYO Geospace 7007 Pinemont Drive Houston, TX 77040 713-986-8650 -----Original Message----- From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Brooks,Bill Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 10:40 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [TN] EU Lead hysteria Hmmm... What will they use for Bullets? How about Un-Leaded Stained Glass windows? For those with heavy hearts and dreams of putting the lead back in their leadless leaderless lead-free world... If the EU leaders leading the world lead us to un-leaded lead-free soldering we will be needlessly lead to leadless soldering from unleaded leads to green pastures of lead-free tin whiskers and unleaded solders to boards without lead and leads unsoldered to boards following hoards of un-lead followers down the yellow brick road we flush down the chemically compliant commode... can there possibly be a leader who leads those lead by the lead-free back to the successful days of tin/lead solder joints and boards without tin whiskers that lead to unleaded soldering failures and lead us to sanity where we can put the lead back into the lead-free solder where it truly belongs... someone please close Pandora's lead lined box. The lead free Genie has escaped the bottle... Bill Brooks - KG6VVP PCB Design Engineer, C.I.D.+, C.I.I. Tel: (760)597-1500 Ext 3772 Fax: (760)597-1510 Datron World Communications, Inc. _______________________________________ San Diego Chapter of the IPC Designers Council Communications Officer, Web Manager http://dcchapters.ipc.org/SanDiego/ http://pcbwizards.com -----Original Message----- From: Anslow, Phillip [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 7:55 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [TN] EU Lead hysteria Comfort yourself with the knowledge the bureaucrats will have to do the same... Oh no - they'll use our tax money to do it - weep with those that weep. Have a good weekend all Phil. -----Original Message----- From: Ingemar Hernefjord [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 18 November 2005 15:32 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [TN] EU Lead hysteria *** WARNING *** This mail has originated outside your organization, either from an external partner or the Global Internet. Keep this in mind if you answer this message. 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.. 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