>From: Mike Harrison <mike@WHITEWING.CO.UK>
>
> >>From: Mike Harrison <mike@WHITEWING.CO.UK>
> >>
> >>In practice, a company with products using a few legacy lead-containing
> >>components is not going to
> >>just stop manufacture if they can't get lead-free parts. The chance of
>any
> >>'lead police' one
> >>noticing a bit of lead on components is insignificant.
> >
> >But the chances of a competitor noticing are probably prettty good.
>
>How? - are they going to analyse the content of every component - I doubt
>it.

Well, what I was thinking was, if I decided I couldn't use a particular
component because of lead content, and then had to change my design, I'd
probably notice if you were still using the component I'd had to design out.

Colin

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