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At 16.37 2011.08.24, you wrote:
>> 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.
>
>I believe that an exemption exists for fine pitch TQFP type components=20
>(initiated by Swatch after they had major problems with watches). The=20
>result is that anything below a certain lead pitch falls into the=20
>exemption AIUI.

Interesting.. I Google'd on it and it seems to mean 0.6mm pitch and below.
Swatch threatened to stop production if they didn't grant them a exemption.=
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With kind regards,
Mario

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