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To: maceng2 who wrote (63602)	5/7/2005 1:07:31 PM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 74559

Lead is heavily restricted for solder in the EU - there are exceptions for military, aircraft and some other applications. Since I don't have any desire to eat my computer, I don't see what the point is. I can see reducing the use of lead shotgun shot, since that ends up in the open environment. Worse case, electronics will end up in landfills. Most well organized societies don't get water from landfills. But I'm sure Brussels knows best. ;-) Water pipes are another matter. You might want to change the pipe soon, while you can sell the lead, instead of paying a 'hazardous disposal fee' *************** I think Gates is still in PAAS. Soros is in SIL, which has good long term prospects Bolivia. Lots of silver is a byproduct of lead, copper, and gold mining. Possibly much more than is captured by the published silver statistics. Digital photography and photo printers are killing silver use, of course. This may affect the preception of silver as a store of value.

To: maceng2 who wrote (63602)	5/7/2005 10:15:07 PM
From: Slagle	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

PearlyButton, Re: Lead pipe. By the 1930's very little lead pipe was used here. Most old houses had zinc plated steel with dryseal taper pipe thread joints by the 1920's. I guess England imported lots of lead from the Malay States or some other colony. Or it may be the unions liked it as it was flexible and easy to use. There was some lead pipe used here in drains and lead was used along with oakum for the packing of joints in cast iron pipe, both pressure and drain. And of course the solder was 40% lead along with 60% tin when it was used for sweating copper tubing. I don't think I have ever actually seen lead pipe used for a domestic water supply but I have heard of it. I have three old industrial supply catalogs from the 1930's and only one of them even lists lead pipe and fittings. I don't think that your lead plumbing contaminates your water very much but if the water district screwed up and allowed the Ph of the water to go acidic it would begin to leach out the lead. Slagle