On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 12:17:54 -0500, you wrote:

>At 04:58 PM 11/19/02 +0000, you wrote:
>
>>I repeat, get the spec for the market/authority that you are looking to=
 work
>>to. There is just too much to try and remember, and too many gotchas =
that
>>will fry your liability insurance.
>
>Excellent advice. The cost is negligible compared to the cost of not
>meeting some obvious spec first time around or trying to meet some spec
>that doesn't apply to your situation. If it's just a speculative thing,
>you may be able to find the standard from a library. I can get such
>standards, for example, from either my alma mater's Engineering library =
or
>from CSA's library. Of course you are not allowed to photocopy them, but
>you can read them.
>
>>You will probably need to talk to a testing lab as well, as has been =
said in
>>this list before.
>
>Right. But try to get your ducks in a row first if cost is important.
>I suggest ordering the standard ASAP and pulling apart some similar =
products
>which are approved under the standard you are trying to meet.
..and remember that just because something has a label on it, it
doesn't always _prove_ that the thing you have in your hand meets
actually the standard - I have seen the insides of a few things that
are clearly not the same as the units (if any) that were originally
approved....

I was told of the following exchange between one of my customers and a
potential  far-east component supplier :=20
Customer : "We need it to have xyz approvals on the component"
Supplier : "No problem, just send us the artwork"...=20

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