Hi Mario,

I take it that you are in Italy?

The ban is on selling products which contain lead. However, there are
exemptions to this for some specific categories of items which need to
use lead (for example, as Russell pointed out, lead-acid batteries,
but also aerospace and military soldering). If your equipment must
handle special vibration situations, you MAY fall into an exempt
category, but you would need someone more knowledgeable than me to
answer that.

As for storing a lead acid battery to make you "lead neutral", I
somewhat disagree. If you recycle that battery with a recycler within
the EU, they will almost certainly be able to reclaim more than 90% of
the lead in it. This would be better than just storing it because it
would prevent the need to mine that much more lead for new batteries.

Sean




On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Electron <electron2k4@infinito.it> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I still own lead components and lead soldering wire (which for me is much
> more desiderable to use for critical applications like this (vibrations))=
..
>
> Can I use them even on a small production scale product? I mean, is the
> ban only on producing components that contain lead, or also on using them=
?
>
> Thanks,
> Mario
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